Abū Muslim al-Khawlānī (ʿAbdallāh b. Thawb)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/11052

Yemenite ascetic

Names

  • Arabic: أبو مسلم الخولاني (عبد الله بن ثوب) = Abū Muslim al-Khawlānī (ʿAbdallāh b. Thawb) 1
  • Arabic: أبو مسلم = Abū Muslim 2
  • Arabic: أبو مسلم الخولاني = Abū Muslim al-Khawlānī 3

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: ca. 61-64 AH/680–3 CE

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 Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 354، 407 (5) 143 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 16 [Arabic].
    • Abū Muslim al-Khawlānī: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 4 [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]), 1:323-325 [Arabic].
    • Abū Muslim al-Khawlānī: 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, 142 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Abū Muslim al-Khawlānī (ʿAbdallāh b. Thawb)” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/11052.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan; and Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
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