Leo the Isaurian

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14754

emperor

Names

  • Arabic: ليون = Liyūn 1
  • Syriac: ܠܐܘܢ = LʾWΝ 2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 741

Temporal Data

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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 Michael the Syrian2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 287 [Arabic].
    • Leo the Isaurian: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 285 [English].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 456 [Syriac].
    • Léon III: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 484, 485, 489, 491, 501, 502, 504 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Leo the Isaurian” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14754.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract; gender assignment, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan; and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: birth/death/floruit dates entry and Wikipedia matching
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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