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Al-Ṭayyār fī l-Janna

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Brother of 'Ali b. Abi Talib, also known as Flyer in Paradise. Lost arms in Battle of Muta', considered to have traded them for wings in Paradise

Names

  • Arabic: الطيار في الجنة = al-Ṭayyār fī l-Janna 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), 184 [Arabic].
    • Ja`far al-Țayyār: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 171n [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Al-Ṭayyār fī l-Janna” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14723.

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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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