Moses

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A person

Names

  • Arabic: موسى بن عمران النبي = Mūsā b. ʿImrān al-Nabī 1
  • Arabic: موسى = Mūsā 2-3
  • Greek: Μωσέως = Mōseōs 4
  • Hebrew: משה = MShH 5
  • Latin: Moyses 6
  • Persian: موسی = Mūsā 7
  • Syriac: ܡܘܫܐ = MWShʾ 8

Attributes

  • Male

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 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
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.4 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela5 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion6 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw7 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian8 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 80، 182، 219، 314 (2) 70، 73، 464، 469، 520 (3) 132، 171، 293، 300، 379 (4) 79 (5) 24، 77، 346، 360 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 15, 16, 20, 52, 220, 281, 288, 353, 376 [Arabic].
    • Moses: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 5, 40, 47n, 204, 286, 297, 360 [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]), 1:260, 304, 325, 328 [Arabic].
    • Moses: 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, 85, 123, 143, 145 [English].
  • 4Moses: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.29 [Greek with English translation].
  • 5Moses: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 60, 92, 102, 111 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 6Moyses: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IX 1. 19. [Latin].
  • 7Moses: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 22, 29 [Persian with English translation].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 17 [Syriac].
    • Moïse: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 30, 37-41, 44, 45, 49, 55, 90, 155; II, 19; III, 1, 24, 109, 110, 149, 152, 302, 311, 353, 359 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Moses” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/6.

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  • 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; matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; 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; Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Liran Yadgar: matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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