Arabs

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/13562

A group

Names

  • Arabic: العرب = al-ʿArab 1-2
  • Armenian: Արապ = Arap 3
  • Greek: Ἄραβες, Ἀράβων, Ἄραβας = Arabes, Arabōn, Arabas 4
  • Syriac: ܐܪ̈ܒܝܐ = ʾRBYʾ 5
  • Syriac: ܛܝ̈ܝܐ = ṬYYʾ 6

Attributes

  • Group

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Astuatsatur.3 1449144914491955
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.4 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian5-6 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 14, 26, 30, 78, 81, 82, 98, 136, 259, 281, 305, 431 [Arabic].
    • Arabs: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 2, 13, 19, 62, 65, 86, 102, 103,124, 246, 248, 251-3, 277, 301, 302-3, 311, 402, 426, 436, 442–3 [English].
  • 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]), 1:170 [Arabic].
    • Arabs : 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, 16, 17 [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 704 I: pp. 622-629 [Armenian].
    • Arap: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1449 (no. 1) [English].
  • 4Arabs: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.14, 15, 18, 39, 42 [Greek 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), 18 [Syriac].
    • Arabes: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 32, 81, 113, 115, 135, 136, 294, 297, 303; II, 22, 403, 408, 420, 424, 487; III, 46, 74, 154, 168, 172, 175, 176, 179, 191, 215, 279, 352, 368, 370 [French].
    • Arabs: 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), ix, xxvi, 2 & n.2, 26, 36, 44, 52, 78, 126, 128, 130, 254, 256, 354, 384 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 273 [Syriac].
    • Ṭaiyayê (= Arabes): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 178, 184, 192, 323, 324, 401, 408, 414, 418, 419, 440, 441, 471; III, 2, 46 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Arabs” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13562.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; gender assignment, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; matching, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; 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
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Laurel Kenner: incorporated Harrak's pages
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