David Alroy

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14183

i.e. Menahem b. Solomon ibn al-Ruji, a head of a Messianic Jewish movement in Iraq (first half of the 12th c.). See: https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/false_messiah-1.pdf

Names

Hebrew: דוד אל רואי = DWD ʾL RWʾY 1

Attributes

Male
Floruit: early 12th c.

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela1	before c.1170	c.1173	13th C	1907

Sources

1David Alroy: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 77, 78, 79, 81 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Liran Yadgar, and Laurel Kenner, “David Alroy” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14183.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Liran Yadgar: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; and gender assignment, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching

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