al-Khābūr (river)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/5751

a tributary to the Euphrates in Syrian territory

Names

  • Arabic: الخابور = al-Khābūr 1-2
  • Hebrew: כבר = KBR 3
  • Hebrew: אל כבור = ʾL KBWR 4
  • Hebrew: חבור = ḤBWR 5

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 3-5 before c.1170c.117313th C1907

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 321، 493 (2) 54، 111، 256، 262، 267، 269، 334، 424، 441، 511، 538 (3) 14، 28، 30 (3) 185، 211، 231، 361، 362، 378، 434 (4) 3، 47، 67، 96، 240، 328 (5) 43، 73، 351، 399 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 179 [Arabic].
    • Khābūr River: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 165 [English].
  • 3Chebar: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 66 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4El Khabur: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 51 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Habor: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 51, 83 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Liran Yadgar, and Jessica Mutter, “al-Khābūr” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/5751.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Liran Yadgar: place categorization; abstract; and categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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