Al-Yaman

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14915

tribal confederation

Names

  • Arabic: اليمن = al-Yaman 1
  • Syriac: ܝܡ̈ܢܝܐ = YMΝYʾ 2

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
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), 66, 88, 231, 235, 236, 237, 239, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 249, 254, 255, 259, 269, 285, 286, 290, 292, 297, 299, 302 [Arabic].
    • Yemen: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 143, 214, 216, 217, 222–3, 224, 226, 227, 229, 234, 238–41, 282, 299–300, 304, 307, 309, 312, 392 [English].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 486 [Syriac].
    • Yamanayê: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 8, 23 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Al-Yaman” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14915.

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
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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