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<label>Photo Credit:</label> "Incipit of the Garshuni compendium of Dadishoʿ of Qatar's <em>Commentary on the Paradise of the Egyptian Fathers</em>," Birmingham, MS Mingana Syriac 174 (19th c.).
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<h1 class="title about">About <i>The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer</i> and the Beth Qaṭraye
Project</h1>
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<p>
<i>The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer</i> is one of the publications of the Beth Qaṭraye
Project a research project funded by NPRP grant NPRP9-002-6-001 from the <a href="https://www.qnrf.org/">Qatar National Research Fund</a> (a member of
<a href="https://www.qf.org.qa/">The Qatar Foundation</a>). The LPI of the
project is Dr. Haya Al Thani (Qatar University). The statements made herein are
solely the responsibility of the authors.</p>
<h2>Formal Project Title</h2>
<p>A preliminary Syriac, Aramaic and Arabic lexical and toponymical survey of Beth
Qaṭraye based on historical, archaeological and lexicographical evidence.</p>
<h2>About Beth Qaṭraye</h2>
<p>Beth Qaṭraye, Syriac for “region of the Qataris”, is a term found in Syriac
literature referring to the region of North-East Arabia including Qatar and
Bahrain from the fourth to the ninth centuries. Beth Qaṭraye was an important
cultural, linguistic and religious crossroads in the pre-Islamic and early
Islamic period, when it produced one of the most widely translated Syriac
authors of all time (Isaac of Nineveh, called after his bishopric, who is also
known as Isaac Qaṭraya or “the Qatari”). A number of other important Syriac
authors also came from Beth Qaṭraye in this period in which the Syriac community
there was not only surviving but producing some of the finest and most educated
authors of the time, many of whom became intellectual, spiritual or religious
leaders in the Middle East as a whole.</p>
<h2>Beth Qaṭraye Project Objectives</h2>
<p>This project has two objectives. The results of the first objective are published
here as <i>The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer</i> here. The results of the second
objective will be published through <a href="www.bethmardutho.org/">Beth
Mardutho: The Syriac Institute</a>.</p>
<p>The first objective of this research project is to collect and analyze
information on the pre-Islamic and early Islamic historical geography and
toponyms of the Beth Qaṭraye region from the most important available sources as
well as later toponymical studies. The toponyms will shed light on the language
of Beth Qaṭraye in the pre-Islamic and early Islamic period by analyzing their
Syriac, Aramaic and Arabic etymology and name components. The historical and
archaeological geography will clarify the cultural relations between this region
and other areas around the Gulf, and how patterns of social predominance shifted
over time. This will provide a better understanding of not only the dynamics of
society within Beth Qaṭraye, but also the place of Beth Qaṭraye within the
larger history of the Middle East in the pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods.
The data collected in this part of the Beth Qaṭraye Project is published in
collaboration with <a href="http://syriaca.org">Syriaca.org</a> as <i>The Beth
Qaṭraye Gazetteer</i>, a part of <i>The Syriac Gazetteer</i>.</p>
<p>A second objective of this project is to determine the set of lexemes that are
designated in the Syriac/Arabic lexicon of Bar Bahlul and other Syriac texts
such as the Synodicon Orientale and the East-Syriac Anonymous Commentary as
belonging to the dialect of Beth Qaṭraye. This will shed important light on the
languages and dialects that were in use in the Arabian Peninsula not only in the
pre-Islamic period, but also what has survived there in the post-Islamic period
since Ibn Bahlul, for example, belongs to the tenth century. This portion of the
project will produce a number of publications including a toponymical and a
lexical dictionary in addition to an online lexical search tool published
through <a href="www.bethmardutho.org/">Beth Mardutho: The Syriac
Institute</a>.</p>
<h3>Submitting Institution</h3>
<ul>
<li>Qatar University</li>
</ul>
<h3>Collaborating Institutions</h3>
<ul>
<li>American University of Beirut</li>
<li>Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute</li>
<li>Syriaca.org: The Syriac Gazetteer</li>
<li>Vanderbilt University</li>
</ul>
<h3>Team members/Key investigators</h3>
<ul>
<li>Dr. Haya Al Thani (LPI. Qatar University)</li>
<li>Dr. Saif al-Murikhi (Qatar University)</li>
<li>Dr. Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn (American University of Beirut)</li>
<li>Dr. Abdul Rahman Chamseddine (Georgetown University in Qatar)</li>
<li>Dr. George Kiraz (The Syriac Institute)</li>
<li>Dr. Mario Kozah (American University of Beirut)</li>
<li>Dr. David Michelson (Vanderbilt University)</li>
<li>Dr. Thomas Carlson (Oklahoma State University)</li>
<li>Tobias Scheunchen (University of Chicago)</li>
<li>William L. Potter (Vanderiblt University)</li>
</ul>
<p>This project was completed with the additional assistance of Syriaca.org's
editorial and development team.</p>
<h4>General Editors, <em>The Syriac Gazetteer</em>
</h4>
<ul>
<li>Thomas A. Carlson, Oklahoma State University</li>
<li>David A. Michelson, Vanderbilt University</li>
</ul>
<h4>Senior Programmers</h4>
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<li>Tom Elliott</li>
<li>Winona Salesky</li>
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