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Salmān al-Fārisī

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A person

Names

  • Arabic: سلمان الفارسي = Salmān al-Fārisī 1, 3
  • Arabic: سلمان = Salmān 2
  • Latin: Salon 4

Attributes

  • Male

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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
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce4 c. 1289c.129014th C1864

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 195 (4) 492 (5) 75 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 56, 57, 337 [Arabic].
    • Salmān al-Fārisī: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 43–4, 346 [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]), 1:363 [Arabic].
    • Salmān al-Fārisī: 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, 182 [English].
  • 4Salon: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XXXV 28. [Latin].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Margaret Gaida, “Salmān al-Fārisī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/4686.

Additional credit information:

  • 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 Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • 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
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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