ʿUbayd Allāh b. Abī Jaʿfar

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A person

Names

  • Arabic: عبيد الله بن أبي جعفر = ʿUbayd Allāh b. Abī Jaʿfar 1
  • Arabic: عبيد الله بن أبي جعفر = ʿUbaydallāh b. Abī Jaʿfar 2
  • Arabic: عبيد الله بن أبي جعفر = ʿUbaydallāh b. Abī Jaʿfar 3

Attributes

  • Male

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.2-3 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (4) 262 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 82 [Arabic].
    • `Abdallāh b. Abī Ja`far: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 66 [English].
  • 3Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 16, 82 [Arabic].
    • `Ubaydallāh b. Abī Ja`far: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 5 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “ʿUbayd Allāh b. Abī Jaʿfar” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/6886.

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: matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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