Levites

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Descendants of the Tribe of Levi.

Names

  • Arabic: لاوي بن يعقوب = Lāwī b. Yaʿqūb 1
  • Hebrew: לוים = LWYM 2
  • Latin: Leuita 3
  • Syriac: ܠ̈ܘܝܐ = LWYʾ 4

Attributes

  • Group

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela2 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion3 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 320 [Arabic].
    • Levi son of Jacob, tribe of: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 325 [English].
  • 2Levites: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 60 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3Leuita: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 29. [Latin].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 97 [Syriac].
    • lévites: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 154 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Levites” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14338.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: abstract and gender assignment, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Margaret Gaida: gender assignment and matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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