Baqiyya b. al-Walīd

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/1986

al-Kalāʿī, important report transmitter and scholar in Syria

Names

  • Arabic: بقية بن الوليد = Baqiyya b. al-Walīd 1-2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 197 AH/812–13 CE

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 149، 216، 455، 489 (2) 398، 544 (4) 229، 469 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 14, 20, 22, 25, 35, 39, 57, 72, 79, 96, 105, 106, 127, 140, 143, 144, 157, 164, 167, 182, 231, 234, 235, 242, 243, 252, 256, 270, 276, 277, 279, 281, 282, 284, 285, 286, 296, 297, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 315, 316, 318, 319, 320, 323, 327, 329, 343, 344, 347, 348, 353, 356, 360, 361, 364, 367, 370, 372, 373, 374, 376, 389, 421 [Arabic].
    • Baqiyya: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 241 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Baqiyya b. al-Walīd” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/1986.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; and matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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