al-Najjār

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/20071

A tribe that lived in a quarter in Medina

Names

Arabic: النجار = al-Najjār 1

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1	before 1354 CE	1354-1356	early 1180 A.H. / 1766	1997

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]), 1:351 [Arabic].
- al-Najjār : 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, 167 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “al-Najjār” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/20071.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and gender assignment, matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account

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