Ṭāwūs b. Kaysān al-Yamānī

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Mawlā of Hamdān

Names

  • Arabic: طاووس بن كيسان اليماني = Ṭāwūs b. Kaysān al-Yamānī 1
  • Arabic: طاوس = Ṭāwūs 2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: ca. 106-110 AH/724–9 CE

Temporal Data

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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

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 482 (2) 96، 158، 169، 180، 354 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 32, 45, 50, 81, 92, 133, 156, 162, 223, 226, 230, 372, 382, 383, 433 [Arabic].
    • Țāwūs: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 21, 34, 39, 65, 80, 122, 205, 206, 207, 208, 213, 328, 357, 358, 379, 445 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Ṭāwūs b. Kaysān al-Yamānī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/5391.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; and matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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