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Sayyār b. Salāma

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Al-Riyāḥī, Baṣran, 2nd century AH/8th century CE

Names

  • Arabic: سيار بن سلامة = Sayyār b. Salāma 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), 96 [Arabic].
    • Sayyār b. Salāma: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 84 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Sayyār b. Salāma” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14846.

Additional credit information:

  • 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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