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al-Muʿizz Abū Tamīm Maʿadd b. Ismāʿīl al-Manṣūr b. Abī l-Qāsim Nizār al-Qāʾim

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Fatimid caliph

Names

  • Arabic: المعز أبو تميم معد بن إسماعيل المنصور بن أبي القاسم نزار القائم = al-Muʿizz Abū Tamīm Maʿadd b. Ismāʿīl al-Manṣūr b. Abī l-Qāsim Nizār al-Qāʾim 1
  • Arabic: معد بن إسماعيل = Maʿadd b. Ismāʿīl 2
  • Arabic: معد = Maʿadd 3
  • Persian: المعزّ لدين الله = al-Muʿizz l-Dīn Allāh 4

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1-3 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw4 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (4) 301 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 55 [Arabic].
  • 3Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 231 [Arabic].
  • 4Mu‘izz li-Dinillah, al-: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 56-57, 62, 100 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Mary Papadopoulos, “al-Muʿizz Abū Tamīm Maʿadd b. Ismāʿīl al-Manṣūr b. Abī l-Qāsim Nizār al-Qāʾim” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/11208.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; Wikipedia matching; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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