Persians

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/13600

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Names

Arabic: فارس الأحرار = Fārs al-Aḥrār 1
Arabic: الأعاجم = al-Aʿājim 2
Armenian: Ազգն Պարսից = Azgn Parsits‘ 3
Armenian: Պարսից = Parsits‘ 4-10
Armenian: Պարսիկս = Parsiks 11
Armenian: Պարսկաց = Parskats‘ 12
Greek: Πέρσαι, Περσῶν, Πέρσαις, Πέρσας = Persai, Persōn, Persais, Persas 13
Latin: Perse 14-15
Syriac: ܦܪ̈ܣܝܐ = PRSYʾ 16

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Show table of instances where this person is mentioned

Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2	before 1354 CE	1354-1356	early 1180 A.H. / 1766	1997
Event mentioned by Simēon.3	1371	1371	1371	1950
Event mentioned by T‘adēos.4	1303	1303	1303	1950
Event mentioned by T‘awak‘al.5	1400	1400	1400	1955
Event mentioned by Yohanēs.6	1421	1421	1421	1955
Event mentioned by Grigor (Tserents‘) Khlat‘ets‘i.7	1422	1422	1422	1955
Event mentioned by Dawit‘.8	1432	1432	1432	1955
Event mentioned by Shmawon.9	1437	1437	1437	1955
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe.10	1451	1451	1451	1958
Event mentioned by Yovanēs.11	1417	1417	1417	1955
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe.12	1471	1471	1471	1958
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.13	before 1464	1464-1468	mid-late 15th C	2014
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion14	c.1280	c.1284	14th C	1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce15	c. 1289	c.1290	14th C	1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian16	before 1199	1195-1199?	1598	2009

Sources

1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 67, 121, 239, 251 [Arabic].
- Persians: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 51, 108, 220, 236 [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]), 1:204 [Arabic].
- Persians : 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, 44 [English].
3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 612 p. 499 [Armenian].
- Azgn Parsic‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1371 (no. 3) [English].
4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 16a p. 15 [Armenian].
- Parsic‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1303 (no. 3) [English].
5L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), I: p. 3, n.1 [Armenian].
- Parsic‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1400 (no. 5) [English].
6L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 284a I: p. 257 [Armenian].
- Parsic‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1421 (no. 8) [English].
7L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), nos. 300, 300b I: pp. 272-288 [Armenian].
- Parsic‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1422 (no. 1) [English].
8L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 448a I: p. 419 [Armenian].
- Parsic‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1432 (no. 1) [English].
9L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 514a I: pp. 468-470 [Armenian].
- Parsic‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1437 (no. 1) [English].
10L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 2 II: pg. 3 [Armenian].
- Parsic‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1451 (no. 2) [English].
11L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 213a I: p. 200 [Armenian].
- Parsiks: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1417 (no. 3) [English].
12L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 403 II: p. 319 [Armenian].
- Parskac‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1471 (no. 7) [English].
13Persians: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.4, 5, 9; 3.10, 13, 22, 24, 36, 43, 53, 54, 56, 68, 71 [Greek with English translation].
14Perse: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 1, XIII 5. [Latin].
15Perse: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), X 38. XI 13. XIV 4. 16. 19. [Latin].
16Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 8 [Syriac].
- Perses: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 16, 32, 49, 99, 101, 102, 109, 110, 112, 113, 119, 139, 254, 260; II, 2, 13, 154, 191, 192, 220, 224, 251, 282, 322, 323, 418, 423, 424, 430; III, 29, 38, 46, 151, 361, 438, 440 [French].

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Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Persians” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13600.

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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 collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
Jessica Mutter: matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and matching from Michael's chronicle
McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor

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