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Badr the Abyssinian

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"governor of ʿAlābūr" 2

Names

  • Arabic: بدر الحبشي = Badr al-Ḥabashī 1

Attributes

  • Male

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Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997

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]), 4:18 [Arabic].
    • the Abyssinian Badr: 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), IV, 786-7 [English].
  • 2A. D. H. Bivar, The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354: Index (London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000), vol. 5, s.v. [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Badr the Abyssinian” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/20155.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML 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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