Diyar Rabi'a
Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia
), with its provinces, in medieval timesDiyar Rabi'a (
Mu'awiya in the course of the Muslim conquests of the 7th century. The Diyar Rabi'a was settled by the Rabi'a
tribe.
Structure
Diyar Rabi'a encompasses the upper reaches of the river
Ra's al-'Ayn. According to Michael Morony, Nisibis had been the administrative center of the region from the Sassanian times to the Abbasid period, though this is supported only from the evidence from the Abbasid period. It seems likely, that during the Ummayad period the Diyar Rabi'a was not yet a administrative subdivision of the Jazira province and was only created in Abbasid times.[1]
History
In the 690s, the region became part of the Jazira province whose oversight was given to
Seljuq
conquest in the late 11th century.
References
- ^ a b Brunner 2021, p. 70.
Sources
- Brunner, Kyle B. (2021). "Simeon of the Olives and his World: Life of the Khabur Basin during the early Islamic period". The Life of Simeon of the Olives: An Entrepreneurial Saint of Early Islamic North Mesopotamia. Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-4632-4346-3. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- Canard, Marius & Cahen, Claude (1965). "Diyār Bakr". In OCLC 495469475.
- Canard, Marius & Cahen, Claude (1965). "Diyār Rabī'a". In OCLC 495469475.