Abū Jaʿfar al-Anṣārī

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Muezzin in Medina, 1st century AH/7th century CE

Names

  • Arabic: أبو جعفر الأنصاري = Abū Jaʿfar al-Anṣārī 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), 104, 118, 129, 130, 133, 165, 171, 174, 184, 189, 190, 192, 198, 200, 203, 204, 206, 208, 213 [Arabic].
    • Abū Ja`far al-Anṣārī: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 89, 104, 116, 117, 150, 155, 156, 159, 171, 175, 181, 183, 186, 188, 190, 195, 213 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Abū Jaʿfar al-Anṣārī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14573.

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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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