Chinggis Khan

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/2554

Mongol conqueror (name also spelled Chingiz, Genghis, etc.)

Names

  • Arabic: جنكزخان = Jinkizkhān 1
  • Arabic: تنكيز = Tankīz 2
  • Latin: Camiustan 3
  • Latin: Magnus Chan 4

Attributes

  • Male

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 Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce3-4 c. 1289c.129014th C1864

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 332 [Arabic].
  • 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]), 3:17-22, 30-31, 40-42 [Arabic].
    • Tankīz: 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), III, 550-52, 560-61, 570-71 [English].
  • 3Camiustan: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XII 2. [Latin].
  • 4Magnus Chan: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IX 22 sqq. [Latin].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Margaret Gaida, “Chinggis Khan” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/2554.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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