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Abū ʿUbayda Ibn al-Jarrāḥ

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ʿᾹmir b. ʿAbdallāh, Companion, participated in conquest of Syria

Names

  • Arabic: أبو عبيدة ابن الجراح = Abū ʿUbayda Ibn al-Jarrāḥ 1
  • Arabic: أبو عبيدة بن الجراح = Abū ʿUbayda b. al-Jarrāḥ 2
  • Arabic: أبو عبيدة بن الجراح = Abū ʿUbaida b. al-Jarrāḥ 3

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 18 AH/639 CE

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
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 148، 236، 269، 307، 328، 447، 454 (2) 80، 135، 174، 206، 285 288، 303، 465 (3) 3، 52، 131، 154 (3) 383 (4) 17، 19، 92، 115، 153، 158، 233، 366، 403 (5) 31، 170، 206، 434 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 54, 55, 167, 168 [Arabic].
    • Abū `Ubayda b. al-Jarrāḥ: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 42, 43, 152, 153 [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]), 1:256, 306 [Arabic].
    • Abū ʿUbaida ibn al-Jarrāḥ: 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, 82, 124 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Abū ʿUbayda Ibn al-Jarrāḥ” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/6948.

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