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Caliph in Jerusalem

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In Nu'aym b. Ḥammād's Kitāb al-Fitan, likely a reference to a later Marwanid Umayyad caliph whose predecessor was based in Damascus; posibly fictional but almost certainly referring to an actual person (if indirectly). Kills his predecessor.

Names

  • Arabic: الخليفة في بيت المقدس = al-Khalīfa fī Bayt al-Maqdis 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), 218, 239, 244, 246 [Arabic].
    • Caliph in Jerusalem: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 201, 221, 227, 230 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Caliph in Jerusalem” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14725.

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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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