ʿAbbāsids

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14521

dynasty of caliphs

Names

  • Arabic: بنو العباس = Banū l-ʿAbbās 1
  • Syriac: ܫܒܪܬܐ ܕܥܒܣ = ShBRTʾ DʿBS 2

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 Michael the Syrian2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 28, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 133, 134, 171, 172, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184, 185, 186, 188, 190, 239, 419, 424 [Arabic].
    • `Abbāsids: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 16, 100-114, 116-17, 121, 122, 149–50, 155-7, 163-5, 167, 171-4, 177, 221, 426, 431 [English].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 553 [Syriac].
    • ‘Abbassides: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 118 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “ʿAbbāsids” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14521.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching
  • Jessica Mutter: gender assignment, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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