Jacob

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/12500

Biblical patriarch, son of Isaac

Names

  • Arabic: يعقوب النبي = Yaʿqūb al-Nabī 1
  • Hebrew: יעקב = YʿQB 2
  • Latin: Iacob 3
  • Persian: یعقوب = Yaʿqūb 4
  • Syriac: ܝܥܩܘܒ = YʿQWB 5
  • Syriac: ܝܣܪ̈ܐܝܠ = YSRʾYL 6

Attributes

  • Male

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 Benjamin of Tudela2 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion3 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw4 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian5-6 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 519 (3) 300، 315، 452 [Arabic].
  • 2Jacob: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 33, 40, 41 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3Iacob: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 13, V 15, VII 25. 26. 40. 48, VIII 4, IX 10. 23. [Latin].
  • 4Jacob: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 22, 30, 45 [Persian with English translation].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 17 [Syriac].
    • Jacob: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 30, 35, 36, 38; II, 77 [French].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 24 [Syriac].
    • Israël: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 36, 77 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Jacob” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/12500.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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