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Tayyib-Ism [1] is a small town in north-western Saudi Arabia in the province of Tabuk. [2] It is located in the upland area (314 m), approx. 10km east of the eastern coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, at 28° 34' 0"n, 34° 50' 0"e. [3] [4] To the west of the village there are unspoiled coral reefs.
Al-Taybah (Arabic: الطيبة, also transliterated al-Tayyibah or al-Ta'iba), historically called Tayyibat al-Ism, is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located west of Daraa. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Taybah had a population of 7,969 in the 2004 census. [1]
Prior to 1960, Wadi Tayyibah provided the main route from Masafi to Dibba and sections of tarmac are still visible, particularly on the lower reaches of the wadi as it approaches the village of Al Hala. [1] The wadi was superseded as the main road to Dibba when the Trucial Oman Scouts built a new road in 1960, dynamiting passes through the ...
Al-Badʿ (Arabic: البدع) is a town in Tabuk Region, Saudi Arabia. It is west of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, between Tabuk and the Red Sea Coast. Located at 28° 41' N and 35° 18' E, it lies on the border of the Hejaz, and was in antiquity in Southern Midian. [1] [2] Al-Bad is located in the valley of the Wadi Aful in a highland area (218m ASL).
The village is situated at the head of the Wadi Tayyibah, which provided the principal link between the interior and Dibba on the East Coast [3] before the metalled road between Masafi and Dibba was constructed by the Trucial Oman Scouts in 1960, using dynamite. [4] A number of petroglyphs have been found in the area of the wadi.
A village called Tayyibat al-Ism was on the list of lands allocated by sultan Baibars to his amirs in 663 AH (1265–1266 CE), about five centuries after the Arab conquest of Palestine. In Mamluk times, the village name appeared on documents referring to the waqf of the mosque in Hebron .
The Wadi al-Taym was the first area where the Druze appeared in the historical record under the name "Druze". [6] According to many of the genealogical traditions of the Druze feudal families, the feudal Druze clans claimed descent from Arab tribes originally based in eastern Arabia and which entered Syria after periods of settlement in the ...
The Uyun al-akhbar is the most complete text written by an Ismaili/Tayyibi/Dawoodi 19th Dai Sayyedna Idris bin Hasan on the history of the Ismaili community from its origins up to the 12th century CE. period of the Fatimid caliphs al-Mustansir (d. 487 AH / 1094 AD), the time of Musta‘lian rulers including al-Musta‘li (d. 495 AH / 1102 AD ...