والنسبة إليها عكبري وعكبراوي، منها شيخنا إمام عصره محب الدين أبو البقاء عبد اللهَ بن الحسين النحوي العكبري مات في ربيع الأول سنة 616، وقرىء على سارية بجامع عكبرا: a little town in the area of Dujayl near Sarifin and Awana, 10 parasangs from Baghdad; its natives are called Ukbari or Ukbarawi, and include our Sheikh the Imam of his time, Muhibb ud-Din Abul-Baqa Abdallah ibn al-Husayn an-Nahwi al-Ukbari, who died in Rabi I, 616 AH. and quotes two brief epigrams about the town. The biographical dictionary of Ibn Khallikan (thirteenth century) calls it: وهي بليدة على دجلة فوق بغداد بعشرة فراسخ خرج منها جماعة من العلماء وغيرهم a little town on the Tigris, 10 parasangs above Baghdad, from which a group of learned men and their like have emerged.See also Uqbar References Sources adh-Dhahabi, al-Ibar fi Khabar min al-Ghabar, al-Waraq edition, p. 193. al-Muqaddasi, Ahsan ut-Taqasim fi Ma`rifati l-'Aqalim, Al-Waraq edition, p. 42. Benjamin of Tudela, The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela, translated by Macus Nathan Adler, London 1907, p. 35. Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat ul-'A`yan, Al-Waraq edition, p. 351. Ibn Khordadhbeh, al-Masalik wal-Mamalik, Al-Waraq edition, pp. 14, 21, 56, 61. Kohler, Kaufmann and Samuel Poznanski, Jewish Encyclopedia article on Ishmael of Akbara W. Schott, "Ocbara" and "Ocbari", in ed. Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber, Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Leipzig 1818. Singer, Isidore and Broydé, Isaac, Jewish Encyclopedia article on "Meshwi al-‘Ukbari" — the Jewish Encyclopedia article "Okbara and Okbarites" is simply a cross reference to their article "Meshwi al-‘Ukbari". Yaqut al-Hamawi, Mu'jam al-Buldan, Al-Waraq edition, p. 1243 ed. Ehsan Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran'', vol. 3(2): The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian Periods, NY: Cambridge UP, 1983, pp. 757–760. External links A 1944 map showing Ukbara A photo by Gertrude Bell Former populated places in Iraq Shapur I Medieval Iraq