Editing Urfa (section)

== Religious significance ==
According to some [[Jewish]] and [[Muslim]] traditions, Urfa is [[Ur Kasdim]], the hometown of [[Abraham]], the grandfather of [[Jacob]]. This identification was disputed by [[Leonard Woolley]], the excavator of the [[Sumer]]ian city of [[Ur]] in 1927 and scholars remain divided on the issue. Urfa is also one of several cities that have traditions associated with [[Job (Biblical figure)|Job]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}

For the [[Armenians]], Urfa has "great symbolic value" since it is believed that the [[Armenian alphabet]] was invented there.<ref name="Creating the Turk's Homeland: Modernization, Nationalism and Geography in Southeast Turkey in the late 19th and 20th Centuries">{{cite book |last=Öktem |first=Kerem |url=http://arsiv.setav.org/ups/dosya/13204.pdf |title=Creating the Turk's Homeland: Modernization, Nationalism and Geography in Southeast Turkey in the late 19th and 20th Centuries |publisher=University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB, UK |year=2003 |location=Harvard |quote=For Armenians, the city has a great symbolic value, as the Armenian alphabet was invented there, thanks to a group of scholars and clergy headed by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century |access-date=19 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109123500/http://arsiv.setav.org/ups/dosya/13204.pdf |archive-date=9 November 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>