Kafar Ṭāb (settlement)

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A town between al-Maʿarra and Aleppo

Names

Arabic: كفر طاب = Kafar Ṭāb 1
Persian: کفر طاب = Kafr Ṭāb 2
Syriac: ܟܦܪܛܒ = KPRṬB 3

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 2	c. 1050	circa 1065	10th C Hijrī/16th C CE	2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 3	before 1199	1195-1199?	1598	2009

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 179 (2) 434، 534 (4) 470 [Arabic].
2Kafr Tab: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 15 [Persian with English translation].
3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 611 [Syriac].
- Kephar-Tâb: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 223, 316, 500 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Kafar Ṭāb” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/12574.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
McKenzie Cady: assistance with Arabic translation of names from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān and categorization from Michael's chronicle
Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle

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