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Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/1369

A person

Names

  • Arabic: أسد الدين شيركوه = Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh 1
  • Syriac: ܫܝܪܟܘܗ = ShYRKWH 2
  • Syriac: ܐܣܕ ܐܠܕܝܢ ܫܝܪܟܘܗ = ʾSD ʾLDYΝ ShYRKWH 3

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Bar Hebraeus2-3 before 11991276-1286before 13571890

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 36 [Arabic].
  • 2Gregory Barhebraeus, Chronicon Syriacum, ed. Paul Bedjan (Paris: Maisonneuve, 1890), 330 [Syriac].
    • Širkhouh: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 325, 328, 329, 333, 334 [French].
  • 3Gregory Barhebraeus, Chronicon Syriacum, ed. Paul Bedjan (Paris: Maisonneuve, 1890), 330 [Syriac].
    • Asad ed-Dîn Širkouh: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 325 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/1369.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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