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Ishmaelites

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A Jewish and Christian derogatory term for Muslims

Names

  • Armenian: Ազգն Իսմաելացոց = Azgn Ismaelats‘ots‘ 1
  • Armenian: Ազգն Իսմաէլեան = Azgn Ismaēlean 2
  • Armenian: Ազգն Իսմայելայ = Azgn Ismayelay 3
  • Armenian: Ազգն Իսմայելի = Azgn Ismayeli 4
  • Armenian: Ազգն Իսմայէլաց = Azgn Ismayēlats‘ 5
  • Armenian: Ազգն Իսմայէլեան = Azgn Ismayēlean 6
  • Armenian: Ազգն Իսմայէլի = Azgn Ismayēli 7-15
  • Armenian: Ազգն Իսմայիլի = Azgn Ismayili 16
  • Armenian: Իսմաելի = Ismaeli 17
  • Armenian: Իսմաէլացոցն = Ismaēlats‘ots‘n 18-19
  • Armenian: Իսմայելացոց ազգ = Ismayelats‘ots‘ azg 1
  • Armenian: Իսմայելացոցն = Ismayelats‘ots‘n 20-22
  • Armenian: Իսմայելացւոց = Ismayelats‘wots‘ 23
  • Armenian: Իսմայէլացիք = Ismayēlats‘ik‘ 24
  • Armenian: Իսմայէլական ազգաց = Ismayēlakan azgats‘ 25
  • Armenian: Իսմայէլեան = Ismayēlean 26
  • Armenian: Իսմայէլեան ազգ = Ismayēlean azg 26
  • Armenian: Իսմայէլեանք = Ismayēleank‘ 27
  • Hebrew: ישמעאלים = YShMʿʾLYM 28
  • Latin: Hismahelite 29
  • Latin: Ysmahelite 30
  • Syriac: ܐܫܡܥ̈ܠܝܐ = ʾShMʿLYʾ 31

Attributes

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Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Sargis.1 1314131413141950
Event mentioned by Vardan.2 1416141614161955
Event mentioned by Yovanēs.3 1407140714071955
Event mentioned by Tirats‘u.4 1305130513051950
Event mentioned by Sargis.5 1336133613361950
Event mentioned by Daniēl.6 1409140914091955
Event mentioned by Sargis.7 1306130613061950
Event mentioned by Daniēl.8 1307130713071950
Event mentioned by Ṛstakēs.9 1315131513151950
Event mentioned by Nersēs Krakts‘i.10 1335133513351950
Event mentioned by Barsegh.11 1336133613361950
Event mentioned by Yovhannēs.12 1349134913491950
Event mentioned by Yovannēs-Alinakh.13 1370137013701950
Event mentioned by Step‘anos.14 1460146014601958
Event mentioned by Kirakos (Jōshkants‘).15 1463146314631958
Event mentioned by Yakovb.16 1304130413041950
Event mentioned by Martiros.17 1450145014501955
Event mentioned by Mkrtich‘.18 1307130713071950
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe.19 1441144114411955
Event mentioned by Vardan.20 1303130313031950
Event mentioned by Nater.21 1341134113411950
Event mentioned by Yovhannēs Naghash.22 1346134613461950
Event mentioned by Yovanēs.23 1411141114111955
Event mentioned by Awetik‘.24 1475147514751958
Event mentioned by Karapet.25 1443144314431955
Event mentioned by Karapet.26 1365136513651950
Event mentioned by Grigor Erēts‘.27 1335133513351950
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela28 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion29 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce30 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian31 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 135 pp. 101-102 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismaelac‘oc‘, Ismayelac‘oc‘ azg: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1314 (no. 1) [English].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 195 I: pp. 183-184 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismaēlean: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1416 (no. 1) [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 72a I: pp. 66-70 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayelay: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1407 (no. 1) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 42 p. 34 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayeli: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1305 (no. 1) [English].
  • 5L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 349a pp. 283-284 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayēlac‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1336 (no. 3) [English].
  • 6L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 96a I: p. 97 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayēlean: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1409 (no. 4) [English].
  • 7L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 56 p. 42 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayēli: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1306 (no. 3) [English].
  • 8L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 62 p. 47 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayēli: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1307 (no. 2) [English].
  • 9L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 151 pp. 114-115 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayēli: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1315 (no. 2) [English].
  • 10L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), nos. 338a, 338b, 338c, 338d pp. 273-275 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayēli: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1335 (no. 6) [English].
  • 11L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 350a p. 285 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayēli: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1336 (no. 4) [English].
  • 12L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 458 p. 379 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayēli: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1349 (no. 2) [English].
  • 13L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 601 p. 491 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayēli: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1370 (no. 1) [English].
  • 14L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 181 II: pp. 141-142 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayēli: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1460 (no. 9) [English].
  • 15L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 238 II: pp. 194-195 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayēli: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1463 (no. 3) [English].
  • 16L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 28 pp. 24-25 [Armenian].
    • Azgn Ismayili: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1304 (no. 3) [English].
  • 17L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 723 I: p. 646 [Armenian].
    • Ismaeli: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1450 (no. 4) [English].
  • 18L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 64a p. 50 [Armenian].
    • Ismaēlac‘oc‘n: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1307 (no. 4) [English].
  • 19L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 579 I: pp. 514-515 [Armenian].
    • Ismaēlac‘oc‘n: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1441 (no. 1) [English].
  • 20L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 231 p. 186 [Armenian].
    • Ismayelac‘oc‘n: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1303 (no. 6) [English].
  • 21L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 403 p. 327 [Armenian].
    • Ismayelac‘oc‘n: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1341 (no. 1) [English].
  • 22L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 433 p. 346 [Armenian].
    • Ismayelac‘oc‘n: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1346 (no. 1) [English].
  • 23L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 128 I: p. 128 [Armenian].
    • Ismayelac‘woc‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1411 (no. 4) [English].
  • 24L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 490 II: p. 389 [Armenian].
    • Ismayēlac‘ik‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1475 (no. 8) [English].
  • 25L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 624 I: p. 549 [Armenian].
    • Ismayēlakan azgac‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1443 (no. 4) [English].
  • 26L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 569 pp. 469-469 [Armenian].
    • Ismayēlean, Ismayēlean azg: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1365 (no. 2) [English].
  • 27L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 332 p. 268 [Armenian].
    • Ismayēleank‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1335 (no. 1) [English].
  • 28Ishmaelites: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 9, 34, 35, 40, 42, 46, 49, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 67, 68, 69, 73, 75, 76, 79, 106 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 29Hismahelite: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), V 5. [Latin].
  • 30Ysmahelite: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 4. [Latin].
  • 31Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 408 [Syriac].
    • Isma'élaye: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 403 [French].

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Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Ishmaelites” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13567.

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