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Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad

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Abbasid caliph

Names

  • Arabic: مقلاص = Miqlāṣ 1
  • Arabic: أبو جعفر المنصور = Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr 2, 5
  • Arabic: المنصور أبو جعفر = al-Manṣūr Abū Jaʿfar 3
  • Arabic: المنصور = al-Manṣūr 4, 7
  • Arabic: أبو جعفر المنصور عبد الله بن محمد ابن علي بن عبد الله بن العباس = Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh b. al-ʿAbbās 6
  • Syriac: ܥܒܕ ܠܠܗ = ʿBD LLH 8
  • Syriac: ܐܒܘܓܥܦܪ = ʾBWGʿPR 9
  • Syriac: ܡܢܨܘܪ ܕܘܢܝܩܝ = MΝṢWR DWΝYQY 10

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1-3 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.4 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.5-7 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian8-10 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 459 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 458 [Arabic].
  • 3Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 294، 302، 316، 457 (2) 266، 381، 404 (3) 182 (5) 95 [Arabic].
  • 4Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 52, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 129, 172, 184, 187, 236, 237, 241, 243, 244, 247, 271, 279, 424, 425 [Arabic].
    • Al-Manṣūr: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 41, 48, 49–50, 156, 174, 231, 258, 431–2 [English].
  • 5Ibn 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]), 1:354, 371, 401 [Arabic].
    • Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr: 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, 171-2, 193, 236 [English].
  • 6Ibn 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]), 1:381 [Arabic].
    • Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh b. al-ʿAbbās: 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, 207 [English].
  • 7Ibn 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]), 2:61 [Arabic].
    • al-Manṣūr: 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), II, 331 [English].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 473 [Syriac].
    • ‘Abdallah: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 515 [French].
  • 9Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 475 [Syriac].
    • Abou Dja‘far al-Mançour: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 518, 519, 521-524, 526, 527, 529; III, 1, 17, 22, 450 [French].
  • 10Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 643 [Syriac].
    • Mançour: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 279 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/11410.

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  • 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; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan; Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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