al-Zanj
URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/4266
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| Event Description | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before c. 1225 | c.1225 | 877 A.H. / 1472 | 1995 | |
| before 1354 CE | 1354-1356 | early 1180 A.H. / 1766 | 1997 | |
| c. 1050 | circa 1065 | 10th C Hijrī/16th C CE | 2001 |
Sources
- 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 333، 343، 345، 369 (2) 100، 136، 378 (3) 355 (4) 478 (5) 23، 173، 207 [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]), 2:117 [Arabic].
- Zinj: 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), II, 379 [English].
- 3Zanjis: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 63 [Persian with English translation].
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Mary Papadopoulos, “al-Zanj” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/4266.
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- Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; 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 Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
- Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
- Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue