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al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib

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Names

  • Arabic: الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب = al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib 1
  • Arabic: حسين بن علي = Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī 2
  • Arabic: الحسين = al-Ḥusayn 3
  • Arabic: الحسين بن علي = al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī 4

Attributes

  • Male

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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
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.3-4 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 469، 481 (2) 187، 208 (3) 118، 121، 412 (4) 36، 136، 156، 178، 318 (5) 142 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 60, 84, 87, 91, 171, 174, 229, 230, 334, 403, 425 [Arabic].
    • Ḥusayn b. `Alī: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 48, 78, 159, 212, 343, 433 [English].
  • 3Ibn 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]), 1:311, 360 [Arabic].
    • al-Ḥusain: 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, 130, 178 [English].
  • 4Ibn 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]), 1:205-206, 252, 323; 2:57 [Arabic].
    • al-Ḥusain b. ʿAlī: 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, 46-7, 81-2, 142; II, 326 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/3252.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
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