Asʿad b. Zurāra Abū Imāma

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/1379

"citizen of al-Madīna" 3

Names

  • Arabic: أسعد بن زرارة أبو إمامة = Asʿad b. Zurāra Abū Imāma 1
  • Arabic: أسعد بن زرارة = Asʿad b. Zurāra 2

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 404 [Arabic].
  • 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]), 1:352 [Arabic].
    • Asʿad b. Zurāra: 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, 168 [English].
  • 3A. D. H. Bivar, The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354: Index (London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000), vol. 5, s.v. [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Asʿad b. Zurāra Abū Imāma” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/1379.

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, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
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