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ʿAbdallāh b. al-ʿAbbās

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Often referred to as simply Ibn 'Abbās, cousin and Companion of Muḥammad, ancestor of the ʿAbbāsids, Qurʾānic interpreter

Names

  • Arabic: عبد الله بن العباس = ʿAbdallāh b. al-ʿAbbās 1
  • Arabic: عبد الله بن عباس = ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbbās 2
  • Persian: عبدالله بن عباس = ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbbās 3

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 68/687–8

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
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw3 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 115، 170، 320، 347، 406 (2) 23، 91، 92، 136، 169، 187، 223، 243، 273، 434، 441 (3) 60، 143، 148، 156، 180، 234، 436 (4) 9، 78، 104، 117، 463، 479، 491 (5) 184، 365، 447 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 18, 47, 52, 73, 89, 92, 95, 98, 104, 112, 115, 116, 119, 125, 142, 169, 180, 184, 185, 200, 205, 206, 212, 226, 228, 229, 231, 247, 249, 250, 271, 325, 362, 376, 384, 386, 390, 395, 397, 403, 421, 423, 433 [Arabic].
    • `Abdallāh b. `Abbās: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 7, 36, 41, 55, 80, 82, 83, 87, 95, 100, 101, 105, 112, 130, 132, 135, 141, 147, 154, 166, 172, 173, 182, 184, 193, 200, 209, 211, 212, 231, 235, 258, 362, 371, 385, 395, 396, 406, 408, 412, 427, 445 [English].
  • 3Abdullah b. Abbas: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 106 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Mary Papadopoulos, “ʿAbdallāh b. al-ʿAbbās” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/5902.

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