Rādhān

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'''Rādhān''' was a region in central [[Mesopotamia]] in the early [[Middle Ages]]. It was an administrative district under the [[ʿAbbāsids]] and also a [[Dioceses of the Church of the East to 1318|diocese of the Church of the East]]. It is roughly the same as the area known since the later Middle Ages as the [[Sawād]], a fertile territory southeast of [[Baghdad]] on the eastern bank of the [[Tigris]].<ref name=Gil>[[Moshe Gil]], "The Radhanite Merchants and the Land of Radhan", ''Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient'', '''17''' (1974): 299–328.</ref>

The spelling Rādhān reflects the [[Arabic]]. The [[Syriac language|Syriac]] form would be Radhan or Radhān. In one Arabic source it is Rāhdān. In Syriac and Christian Arabic sources, the term is usually singular. In early Islamic sources, however, the plural form Rādhānāt and the dual form Rādhānān are more common. They probably reflect the division of the territory into either a lower, middle and upper part or just a lower and upper part, respectively. [[Theodor Nöldeke]] aruegd that the name was of [[Assyria]]n origin and gave its hypothetical Assyrian form as ''ra-da-a-nu''.<ref name=Gil/>

The region of Rādhān, which is known to have had a [[Jews|Jewish]] population, was probably the country of origin of the [[Radhanite|Rādhānite]] merchants.<ref name=Gil/>

==References==


[[Category:History of Mesopotamia]]
[[Category:Historical regions]]
[[Category:Iraq under the Umayyad Caliphate]]
[[Category:Iraq under the Abbasid Caliphate]]
[[Category:Church of the East in Iraq]]

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