Quraysh

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14813

tribe

Names

  • Arabic: قريش = Quraysh 1-2
  • Syriac: ܩܘܪ̈ܫܝܐ = QWRShYʾ 3

Attributes

  • Group

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
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 47, 52, 67, 70, 73, 74, 88, 98, 111, 117, 141, 143, 159, 160, 172, 178, 180, 184, 199, 213, 224, 226, 228, 231, 236, 237, 238, 239, 242, 244, 245, 246, 248, 249, 250, 251, 280, 281, 300, 305, 310, 313, 314, 348, 351, 366, 425, 426, 430, 431, 433 [Arabic].
    • Quraysh: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 36, 40–1, 49–50, 51, 74, 103, 129, 143, 144, 157, 166, 169, 171, 195, 208, 210–11, 214, 216-44, 315, 354, 376, 434, 440, 445 [English].
  • 2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:375, 383, 401 [Arabic].
    • Quraish : H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 199, 210, 236 [English].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 408 [Syriac].
    • Qoreiša: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 403; III, 35, 59, 62 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Quraysh” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14813.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; 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; Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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