Bedouin

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14654

A group

Names

  • Arabic: الأعراب = al-Aʿrāb 1
  • Latin: Bodwini 2
  • Persian: بدویان = Badawiyān 3

Attributes

  • Group

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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 Burchard of Mount Sion2 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw3 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 270, 290, 298, 327, 329, 380, 413 [Arabic].
    • Bedouin: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 256–7, 290, 302, 331, 334, 389, 420 [English].
  • 2Bodwini: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 23, VII 45, XIII 6. [Latin].
  • 3Bedouins: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 62 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Bedouin” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14654.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching
  • Jessica Mutter: gender assignment, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
  • Margaret Gaida: gender assignment and matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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