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Ribat

A ribāṭ (Arabic: رِبَـاط; hospice, hostel, base or retreat) is an Arabic term, initially designating a small fortification built along a frontier during the first years of the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb to house murabitun 'volunteer military personnel', and shortly, after they also appeared along the frontier with the Byzantine Empire, where they…

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related to Further reading · 45
Ribat → Abdu's-Salam, Baltimore, Campus Verlag, Christian Military Orders, Coastal Navigation, Cultural Transfer, Economic, Edited, Eleventh Century, Frankfurt/M, Hassan, Heike Bock, Imra'a, Interaction, Invention, ISBN, Islam, Its Other, Its Role, Johns Hopkins University Press
related to External links · 21
Ribat → Accessed May, Anatolia, Ancient Near East, ArchNet, Branning, Central Asia, Early Muslim, Great Seljuk, Han, Introduction, Iran, Katharine, May, Origin, Retrieved, Seljuk, The, The Seljuk Han, Turkish, What
related to Sufi brotherhoods · 21
Ribat → As, Awasim, Here, Kyzylkum Desert, Many, Most, Muslim, North Africa, Persian, Rabati Malik, Sahara, Sharaf, Some, Such, Sufi, Sufis, The, These, Usually, Uzbekistan
see also · 17
Ribat → AlmoravidsAl-Awasim, Berber, Byzantine Empire, Cafarlet, Central Asian, Early Islamic, Muslim, North African, Palestine, PalestineMinat, Persian, Qal'a, Rabat, Robat, Semitic, Sufi, Turkish
related to Contemporary use · 10
Ribat → Contemporary, Gaza Strip, In, Islamic State, Land, Palestine, Palestinian, Qaeda, Salafi, The
related to Historical meaning · 8
Ribat → Classically, Islam, Islamic, New Persian, Ottoman, Sufi, The, They
related to Female Sufis · 3
Ribat → Another, Female, Sufi
related to As caravanserais · 1
Ribat → In

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ribats muslim sufi also used house islamic caravanserai seljuk early han term frontier caravanserais list retreat century later persian use

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al-Qaeda or the Islamic Stateinstance ofThe one who performs ribat is called a murabit.Contemporary useContemporary use of the term ribat is common among jihadi groups0.80text
al-Qaeda or the Islamic Stateinstance ofContemporary useContemporary use of the term ribat is common among jihadi groups0.80text
Ribatrelated to As caravanseraisIn0.60section
Ribatrelated to Contemporary useContemporary0.60section
Ribatrelated to Contemporary useQaeda0.60section
Ribatrelated to Contemporary useIslamic State0.60section
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Ribatrelated to Contemporary useSalafi0.60section
Ribatrelated to Contemporary useGaza Strip0.60section
Ribatrelated to Contemporary useIn0.60section
Ribatrelated to Contemporary useLand0.60section
Ribatrelated to Contemporary usePalestine0.60section

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