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Abū l-ʿĀliyya

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Rufayʿ b. Mihran al-Riyyāḥī, mawlā of a woman from Banū Riyyāḥ b. Yarbūʿ, lived in Baṣra, d. 90, 93, 106 or 111 AH/709, 712, 724–5, 729–30 CE

Names

  • Arabic: أبو العالية = Abū l-ʿĀliyya 1

Attributes

  • Male

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Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 18, 89, 137, 373, 375, 376, 405 [Arabic].
    • Abū al-`Āliyya: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 7, 76, 125, 381 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Abū l-ʿĀliyya” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14550.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract and gender assignment, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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