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Alexander the Great

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Ancient Macedonian conqueror

Names

  • Arabic: الإسكندر بن فيلفوس = al-Iskandar b. Fīlifūs 1
  • Arabic: إسكندر = Iskandar 2
  • Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρον = Alexandros, Alexandron 3
  • Hebrew: אלכסנדרוס = ʾLKSNDRWS 4
  • Hebrew: אלכסנדרוס מקדון = ʾLKSNDRWS MQDWN 5
  • Hebrew: אלכסנדר = ʾLKSNDR 6
  • Hebrew: אכסנדר = ʾKSNDR 7
  • Latin: Alexander Magnus 8-10
  • Syriac: ܐܠܟܣܢܕܪܘܣ ܡܩܕܘܢܝܐ = ʾLKSΝDRWS MQDWΝYʾ 11

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.3 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela4-7 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion8 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce9 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg10 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian11 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 182، 479 (2) 418 (3) 227، 328 (5) 74، 396 [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]), 4:86 [Arabic].
    • Iskandar: 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), IV, 853 [English].
  • 3Alexander: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.3, 4; 3.49, 53 [Greek with English translation].
  • 4Alexander: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 15 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Alexander of Macedon: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 103 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 6Alexander: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 62, 103 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 7Alexander: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 18, 104 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 8Alexander Magnus: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 3. 5. [Latin].
  • 9Alexander Magnus: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), X 39. 43. [Latin].
  • 10Alexander Magnus: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 18, 3. 7. — 21, 8. — 22. [Latin].
  • 11Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 48 [Syriac].
    • Alexandre le Grand: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 78, 89, 102, 103, 105, 107, 109, 112-114, 118, 119, 128, 137, 254, 258; II, 488; III, 151, 278 [French].
    • Alexander: 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), 254 & n.720 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Alexander the Great” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/1398.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; matching, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; 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: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account and matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Liran Yadgar: matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: incorporated Harrak's pages
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