al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Qays al-Fihrī

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Names

  • Arabic: الضحاك بن قيس الفهري = al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Qays al-Fihrī 1
  • Arabic: الضحاك بن قيس = al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Qays 2
  • Syriac: ܕܐܢܝܟ = DʾΝYK 3

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  • 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
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 148 (2) 126، 403 (3) 21 (5) 304 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 73, 104 [Arabic].
    • Ḍaḥḥāk b. Qays: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 55, 89 [English].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 448 [Syriac].
    • Daḥak (Daḥḥaq ibn Qeis): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 469 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Qays al-Fihrī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/5352.

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, 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
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