Tayyibah is a large village in the

Hajar Mountains The Hajar Mountains ( ar, جِبَال ٱلْحَجَر, Jibāl al-Ḥajar, ''The Rocky Mountains'' or ''The Stone Mountains'') in northeastern Oman and also the eastern United Arab Emirates are the highest mountain range in the eastern Arabian ...

Fujairah Fujairah City ( ar, الفجيرة) is the capital of the emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. It is the seventh-largest city in UAE, located on the Gulf of Oman (part of the Indian Ocean). It is the only Emirati capital city on the ...

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

. It is notable for its hiking trails, its Heritage Museum and the Al Qalaa Lodge, an Emirati heritage themed guest house.

History

The village is situated at the head of the

Wadi Tayyibah Wadi Tayyibah is a seasonal watercourse, or wadi, in the Hajar Mountains of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. It runs from the village of Tayyibah to join the ''Seih'' Dibba or Dibba Plain, where it fans out into the plain. Prior to 1960, Wadi Tayyib ...

, which provided the principal link between the interior and Dibba on the East Coast before the metalled road between

Masafi Masafi ( ar, مسافي) is a village located on the edge of the Hajar Mountains in the United Arab Emirates. It sits at the inland entrance of the Wadi Ham, which runs down to Fujairah City. The border between the emirates of Fujairah and Ras Al ...

and

Dibba Dibbā ( ar, دِبَّا) is a coastal area at the northern tip of the eastern Arabian peninsula on the Gulf of Oman. Political administration Dibba is politically divided into three segments: * Dibba Al-Fujairah, ruled by the Emirate of Fuj ...

was constructed by the

Trucial Oman Scouts The Trucial Oman Scouts was a paramilitary force that the British raised in 1951 as the Trucial Oman Levies, to serve in the Trucial States. In 1956, the Levies were renamed the Trucial Oman Scouts. In 1971, upon the formation of the United Arab ...

in 1960, using dynamite., p.174. A number of

petroglyphs A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...

have been found in the area of the

wadi Wadi ( ar, وَادِي, wādī), alternatively ''wād'' ( ar, وَاد), North African Arabic Oued, is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley. In some instances, it may refer to a wet (ephemeral) riverbed that contains water onl ...

. Fighting broke out between the

Sharqiyin The Sharqiyin ( ar, الشرقيون, singular Al Sharqi ar, الشرقي) is a tribe of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Sharqiyin were long the dominant tribe along the East coast of the Trucial States (and the second most numerous in t ...

residents of Tayyibah and members of the Mazari tribe from the nearby community of Asimah in May 1959, a conflict that resulted in the Ruler of Fujairah at the time,

Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi (1908 – 6 September 1974) was the Ruler of Fujairah, one of the emirate, emirates which today form the United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates (UAE), from 1938–1974. In 1952 he was to see his father's lo ...

, having to pay compensation, or ''muatasham,'' of 400 Rupees to the Ruler of

Ras Al Khaimah Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) ( ar, رَأْس ٱلْخَيْمَة, historically Julfar) is the largest city and capital of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. It is the sixth-largest city in UAE after Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Al Ain ...

Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi ( ar, صقر بن محمد القاسمي; c. 1918–1920 – 27 October 2010) was the Ruler of Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah from 1948 to 2010. On 10 February 1972, under his leadership, Ras Al Khaimah become ...

, as he was in breach of the ''wayi'' (protection or safeguard) agreed between them – as well as reparations of 14,000 Rupees for the damage caused by his tribesmen. The conflict, which resulted in the death of a man from Asimah and which was only quelled on the armed intervention of the Trucial Oman Scouts, rumbled on and in 1961 led to attacks on workers on the Trucial Oman Scouts' Masafi/Dibba road construction project by Tayyibah men. In its heyday as an agricultural settlement, in the early 20th century, the farms of Tayyibah would provide seasonal work for men from the surrounding area.

Modern Tayyibah

Today Tayyibah is a popular tourist destination and hiking spot, with a number of trails marked throughout the area. The area is agriculturally rich and is noted for its

date palm ''Phoenix dactylifera'', commonly known as date or date palm, is a flowering plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates. The species is widely cultivated across northern Africa, the Middle Eas ...

groves. With some 75 families populating Tayyibah in 2009, a number of housing programs have greatly expanded the settlement in recent years with modern housing developing the village away from its traditional housing and core community. File:Tayyibah Heritage Museum.jpg, The Tayyibah Heritage Museum. File:Petroglyph from the Wadi Tayyibah on display at the Tayyibah Heritage Museum..jpg, Petroglyph retrieved from the Wadi Tayyibah on display at the Tayyibah Heritage Museum. , The Al Qala Lodge guest house in Tayyibah, Fujairah. File:Farm at Tayyibah.jpg, A date grove at a farm in Tayyibah, Fujairah. The ''bustan'' system of agriculture is used, irrigated by ''aflaj'' waterways.

References

Populated places in the Emirate of Fujairah {{UnitedArabEmirates-geo-stub