al-Saffāḥ al-ʿAbbāsī Abū l-ʿAbbās (ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/4621

Abbasid caliph

Names

  • Arabic: السفاح العباسي أبو العباس (عبد الله بن محمد) = al-Saffāḥ al-ʿAbbāsī Abū l-ʿAbbās (ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad) 1
  • Arabic: السفاح = al-Saffāḥ 2
  • Syriac: ܐܒܘ ܐܠܥܒܐܣ = ʾBW ʾLʿBʾS 3
  • Syriac: ܥܒܕ ܠܠܗ ܐܒܘ ܠܥܒܣ = ʿBD LLH ʾBW LʿBS 4
  • Syriac: ܣܐܦܝܚ = SʾPYḤ 5

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

to Sort:
Show table of instances where this person is mentioned
Event DescriptionDate
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
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian4-5 before 11991195-1199?15982009
Events mentioned by Bar Hebraeus3 before 11991276-1286before 13571890

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 257، 328، 470 (3) 394 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 52, 60, 64, 65, 66, 67, 224, 226, 247, 248, 271, 403, 424 [Arabic].
    • Al-Saffāḥ: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 41 and n, 48, 49–50, 156, 208, 231, 258, 431–2 [English].
  • 3Gregory Barhebraeus, Chronicon Syriacum, ed. Paul Bedjan (Paris: Maisonneuve, 1890), 121 [Syriac].
    • Abou ’l-‘Abbas as-Saffah: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 506 [French].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 475 [Syriac].
    • ‘Abdallah Abou ’l-Abbas: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 518 [French].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 779 [Syriac].
    • ‘Abdallah Abou ’l-Abbas: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 522 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “al-Saffāḥ al-ʿAbbāsī Abū l-ʿAbbās (ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad)” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/4621.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
Show additional credits