Aqarib (Arabic: عقارب), also known as Aqarib al-Safiyah (Arabic: عقارب الصافية), is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Salamiyah District of the Hama Governorate.

[1] Nearby localities include Salamiyah and Tell al-Tut to the southwest, Uqayribat to the southeast and Sabburah to the north.

[3] Aqarib was founded in 1876 by Ismaili migrants from the area of Shaizar, a town west of Hama.

The Ismailis had been evicted from their homes by a prominent landowning family based in Hama who owned the area around Shaizar.

Part of the reason the migrants chose to settle in Aqarib was its proximity to Salamiyah, the center of Ismaili life in Syria.