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Egyptians

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People of Egypt

Names

  • Arabic: أهل مصر = Ahl Miṣr 1
  • Armenian: Եգիպտացւոց = Egiptats‘wots‘ 2-4
  • Latin: Egyptii 5
  • Syriac: ܐܝܓܘ̈ܦܛܝܐ = ʾYGWPṬYʾ 6
  • Syriac: ܡܨܪ̈ܝܐ = MṢRYʾ 7

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 an Armenian scribe.2 1441144114411955
Event mentioned by Grigor (Artskets‘i).3 1441144114411955
Event mentioned by Dawit‘ Episkopos.4 1453145314531958
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion5 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian6-7 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 24, 145, 153, 158, 160, 162, 172, 173, 175, 272, 278, 279, 290, 291, 292, 295, 303, 312, 410, 431 [Arabic].
    • Egyptians: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 12, 138, 157, 293, 309, 438 [English].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 584 I: p. 517 [Armenian].
    • Egiptac‘woc‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1441 (no. 6) [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 598 I: p. 529 [Armenian].
    • Egiptac‘woc‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1441 (no. 10) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 38 II: pp. 30-31 [Armenian].
    • Egiptac‘woc‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 1) [English].
  • 5Egyptii: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIII 5. [Latin].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 8 [Syriac].
    • Égyptiens: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 16-32, 78, 109, 110, 112, 115, 254; III, 172, 184, 191, 193, 210, 212, 223, 435, 439 [French].
    • Egyptians: 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), xv, 36, 64, 78, 82, 120, 146 [Syriac 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), 8 [Syriac].
    • Meçroyê [= Égyptiens]: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 16 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Egyptians” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13577.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, 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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