Makḥūl al-Shāmī

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/11331

legal scholar in Damascus

Names

  • Arabic: مكحول الشامي = Makḥūl al-Shāmī 1
  • Arabic: مكحول = Makḥūl 2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: ca. 112-114 AH/730–3 CE

Temporal Data

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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

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 149، 212، 418 (2) 158، 354، 431 (3) 427، 438 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 15, 17, 18, 20, 25, 26, 74, 80, 116, 128, 129, 130, 167, 168, 229, 262, 267, 302, 327, 347, 367, 390, 412, 416 [Arabic].
    • Makḥūl: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 8, 57, 101, 115, 116, 118, 253, 308, 400, 420, 423, 424 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Makḥūl al-Shāmī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/11331.

Additional credit information:

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