ʿUbayd Allāh al-Mahdī

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First Fatimid caliph

Names

Arabic: عبيد الله المهدي = ʿUbayd Allāh al-Mahdī 1
Persian: مهدی = Mahdī 2

Attributes

Male

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw2	c. 1050	circa 1065	10th C Hijrī/16th C CE	2001

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 278، 315 (2) 56، 160 (5) 230 [Arabic].
2Mahdi, al-: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 46, 54 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Mary Papadopoulos, “ʿUbayd Allāh al-Mahdī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/6878.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue

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