Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14517

Twelfth Imam of the Twelver Shia, the "expected imam"

Names

  • Arabic: المنتظر = al-Muntaẓar 1
  • Arabic: محمد بن الحسن العسكري = Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī 2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Birth: 870

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), (3) 178 (4) 123، 296 [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]), 2:56 [Arabic].
    • Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī: 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), II, 325 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Laurel Kenner, and Jessica Mutter, “Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14517.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Laurel Kenner: birth/death/floruit dates entry and Wikipedia matching
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
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