Banū Asad

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Arabic: بنو أسد = Banū Asad 1

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993

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1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 56, 274 [Arabic].
- Banū Asad: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 43, 263, 278 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Banū Asad” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14643.

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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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