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Hūlāgū Khān

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founder of the Mongol Ilkhanate

Names

  • Arabic: هلاون = Hulāwun 1
  • Armenian: Հուլաւու = Hulawu 2
  • Armenian: Հուլայուն = Hulayun 3
  • Latin: Haalaga 4

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 1265

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe.2 1476147614761958
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe.3 1307130713071950
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce4 c. 1289c.129014th C1864

Sources

  • 1Ibn 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]), 3:81 [Arabic].
    • Hulāwun: 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), III, 598 [English].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 502 II: p. 400 [Armenian].
    • Hulawu: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1476 (no. 8) [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 61 p. 46 [Armenian].
    • Hulayun: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1307 (no. 1) [English].
  • 4Haalaga: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIII 23, 24. [Latin].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Hūlāgū Khān” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/12863.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; gender assignment, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; and matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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