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Samaritans

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A group

Names

  • Arabic: السامرة = al-Sāmira 1
  • Hebrew: היהודים השמרונים = HYHWDYM HShMRWNYM 2
  • Hebrew: שמרתנוש = ŚMRTNWŚ 3
  • Hebrew: כותיים = KWTYYM 4
  • Hebrew: כותים = KWTYM 5
  • Syriac: ܫܡܪ̈ܝܐ = ShMRYʾ 6

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  • Group

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela2-5 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian6 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (4) 47، 459 (5) 248 [Arabic].
  • 2Jews of Shomron: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 32 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3Samaritans : Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 32 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Cuthim: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 32, 33, 48 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Cuthim: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 44 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 55 [Syriac].
    • Samaritains: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 85, 107, 113, 129, 157, 187; II, 90, 148, 191, 262, 347, 413; III, 93 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Samaritans” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/4402.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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