Abid al-Shira

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/15120

A group of slaves purchased for the Fatimid caliph.

Names

Persian: عبید الشراء = ʿAbīd al-Shirāʾ 1

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw1	c. 1050	circa 1065	10th C Hijrī/16th C CE	2001

Sources

1Abid al-Shira: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 62 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Mary Papadopoulos, “Abid al-Shira” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/15120.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
Mary Papadopoulos: abstract and gender assignment, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue

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