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Bāb al-Rastan (marketplace)

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In Ḥimṣ

Names

  • Arabic: باب الرستن = Bāb al-Rastan 1

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Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 254, 255, 277, 279, 306 [Arabic].
    • Rastan Gate/Rastan Market: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 239, 269 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Bāb al-Rastan” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17638.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
  • Jessica Mutter: place categorization; abstract; and categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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