ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām

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Ibn al-Zubayr, involved in second fitna, led a rival caliphate in Mecca from 683 until his death in 692 CE

Names

  • Arabic: عبد الله بن الزبير بن العوام = ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām 1
  • Arabic: عبد الله بن الزبير = ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr 2, 4
  • Arabic: ابن الزبير = ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr 3
  • Arabic: ابن الزبير = Ibn al-Zubayr 5
  • Syriac: ܥܒܕ ܐܠܗ = ʿBD ʾLH 6-7

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 692

Temporal Data

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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.2-3 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.4-5 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian6-7 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 229، 366، 413، 469 (2) 78، 221، 249 (3) 21، 282 (4) 66 (5) 56، 424 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 89, 109 [Arabic].
    • `Abdallāh b. al-Zubayr: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 10, 14, 15, 58, 59, 60, 76, 80, 87, 90, 137, 208, 324, 414, 418, 425 [English].
  • 3Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 21, 26, 27, 75, 76, 77, 84, 89, 92, 93, 98, 104, 105, 108, 109, 208, 224, 319, 405, 419 [Arabic].
    • `Abdallāh b. al-Zubayr: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 10, 14, 15, 58, 59, 60, 76, 80, 87, 90, 137, 208, 324, 414, 418, 425 [English].
  • 4Ibn 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]), 1:381, 400 [Arabic].
    • ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubair: 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, 207, 235 [English].
  • 5Ibn 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]), 1:401 [Arabic].
    • Ibn al-Zubair: 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, 236 [English].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 131 [Syriac].
    • ‘Abdallah: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 255 (?); II, 468-470 [French].
  • 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 448 [Syriac].
    • Bar Zobeïr (‘Abdallah ibn Zobeïr): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 469, 470 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “ʿAbdallāh b. al-Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/5850.

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, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan; Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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