People of the Book

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14798

ahl al-kitāb, non-Muslims of scriptural tradition. Usually refers to Christians and Jews, though other religious groups were commonly included

Names

Arabic: أهل الكتاب = Ahl al-Kitāb 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

Sources

1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 42, 57, 87, 326, 342 [Arabic].
- People of the Book: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 72, 330 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Laurel Kenner, “People of the Book” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14798.

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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
Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching

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