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Jonah

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Biblical prophet

Names

  • Arabic: يونس النبي = Yūnus al-Nabī 1
  • Arabic: يونس = Yūnus 2
  • Hebrew: יונה בן אמתי = YWNH BN ʾMTY 3
  • Latin: Ionas 4-5
  • Persian: یونس = Yūnus 6
  • Syriac: ܝܘܢܢ = YWΝΝ 7

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela3 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion4 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce5 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw6 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian7 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 481 (2) 41 (4) 470 (5) 198 [Arabic].
  • 2Ibn 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]), 1:244; 2:83 [Arabic].
    • Yūnus: 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, 77; II, 349 [English].
  • 3Jonah, son of Amittai: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 44 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Ionas: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VI 2. IX 8. [Latin].
  • 5Ionas: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XVI 3. 4. [Latin].
  • 6Jonah: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 24 [Persian with English translation].
  • 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 47 [Syriac].
    • Jonas: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 75, 76, 81 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Jonah” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/12659.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; 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
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account and matching 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
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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