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Nūr al-Dīn al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Maḥmūd

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/10809

son of Zangi, ruler of Aleppo

Names

  • Arabic: محمود بن زنكي نور الدين الملك العادل = Maḥmūd b. Zankī Nūr al-Dīn al-Malik al-ʿĀdil 1
  • Arabic: نور الدين محمود ابن زنكى = Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Zankī 2
  • Arabic: نور الدين = Nūr al-Dīn 3
  • Hebrew: נור אל דין = NWR ʾL DYN 4
  • Syriac: ܡܚܡܘܕ = MḤMWD 5
  • Syriac: ܢܘܪܕܝܢ = ΝWRDYΝ 6

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2-3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian5-6 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 203، 420 (2) 142، 469 (3) 290 (5) 224 [Arabic].
  • 2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:319 [Arabic].
    • Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd b. Zangī: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 138 [English].
  • 3Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:262-264 [Arabic].
    • Nūr al-Dīn: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 86-7 [English].
  • 4Nur-ed-din: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 46, 49, 50, 52 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 637 [Syriac].
    • Maḥmoud Nour ed-Dîn: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 268 [French].
    • Maḥmūd Nour-al-dīn son of Zangi: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), 232, 398 n.1094, 428 n.1149 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 637 [Syriac].
    • Nour ed-Dîn: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 268, 282, 288, 289, 294, 297, 312, 316, 318 (?), 319, 324-326, 328, 329, 331-333, 339-343, 345, 346, 349, 351-354, 356, 357, 360, 362, 363, 365 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Nūr al-Dīn al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Maḥmūd” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/10809.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: incorporated Harrak's pages
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