Bilal the Abyssinian
URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/15138
Attributes
- Male
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| Event Description | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before 1354 CE | 1354-1356 | early 1180 A.H. / 1766 | 1997 | |
| c. 1050 | circa 1065 | 10th C Hijrī/16th C CE | 2001 |
Sources
- 1Ibn 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]), 1:320 [Arabic].
- Bilāl: 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, 139 [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]), 2:209 [Arabic].
- Bilāl al-Ḥabashī: 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), II, 466 [English].
- 3Bilal the Abyssinian: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 104 [Persian with English translation].
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, Mary Papadopoulos, and Jessica Mutter, “Bilal the Abyssinian” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/15138.
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- Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; 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
- Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account