John the Baptist

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/12568

A person

Names

  • Arabic: يحيى بن زكرياء النبي = Yaḥyā b. Zakariyyāʾ al-Nabī 1
  • Arabic: يوحنا المعمداني = Yūḥannā al-Maʿmadānī 2
  • Arabic: يحيى بن زكريا = Yaḥyā b. Zakariyyā 3
  • Armenian: Կարապետ = Karapet 4
  • Latin: Sanctus Iohannes Baptista 5-7
  • Syriac: ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܙܟܪܝܐ = YWḤΝΝ BR ZKRYʾ 8

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.3 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Movsēs Artskets‘i.4 1472147214721958
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion5 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce6 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg7 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian8 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 284، 464، 469 (3) 184 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 525 [Arabic].
  • 3Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 130 [Arabic].
    • John the Baptist: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 117 [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 424b II: pp. 333-337 [Armenian].
    • Karapet: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1472 (no. 1) [English].
  • 5Sanctus Iohannes Baptista: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 15. 17 (x6). 39. 41. IX 28. [Latin].
  • 6Sanctus Iohannes Baptista: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IV 33. [Latin].
  • 7Sanctus Iohannes Baptista: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 24, 7. [Latin].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 91 [Syriac].
    • Jean-Baptiste: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 138, 143, 144, 152, 240, 270; II, 85; III, 159 [French].
    • John the Baptist: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), 4 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “John the Baptist” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/12568.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Laurel Kenner: incorporated Harrak's pages
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