Maḥmūd II

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/10827

Seljuk sultan, son of Muḥammad Tapar b. Malikshāh

Names

  • Arabic: محمود بن محمد بن ملكشاه = Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad b. Malikshāh 1
  • Syriac: ܡܚܡܘܕ = MḤMWD 2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 1131

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 222 (2) 37، 452 [Arabic].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 612 [Syriac].
    • Maḥmoud: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 206, 225, 248 [French].
    • Maḥmūd: 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), 112 & n. 342, 148, 194 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Maḥmūd II” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/10827.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; Wikipedia matching; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • 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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