Jesus
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Names
- Arabic: عيسى بن مريم المسيح = ʿĪsā b. Maryam al-Masīḥ 1
- Arabic: يسوع الناصري = Yasūʿ al-Nāṣirī 2
- Arabic: عيسى بن مريم = ʿIsā b. Maryam 3
- Arabic: المسيح = al-Masīḥ 4
- Arabic: المسيح عيسى = al-Masīḥ ʿĪsā 5
- Arabic: عيسى = ʿĪsā 6
- Greek: Ἰησοῦς, Ἰησοῦ, Ἰησοῦν = Iēsous, Iēsou, Iēsoun 7-8
- Hebrew: ישו הנוצרי = YShW HNWṢRY 9
- Persian: عیسی = ʿĪsā 10
- Syriac: ܝܫܘܥ ܡܫܝܚܐ = YShWʿ MShYḤʾ 11
Attributes
- Male
See Also
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| Event Description | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before c. 1225 | c.1225 | 877 A.H. / 1472 | 1995 | |
| before 843 CE | c. 820-843 CE | 687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE | 1993 | |
| before 1354 CE | 1354-1356 | early 1180 A.H. / 1766 | 1997 | |
| before 1464 | 1464-1468 | mid-late 15th C | 2014 | |
| before 1470 | 1464-1470 | mid-late 15th C | 2014 | |
| before c.1170 | c.1173 | 13th C | 1907 | |
| c. 1050 | circa 1065 | 10th C Hijrī/16th C CE | 2001 | |
| before 1199 | 1195-1199? | 1598 | 2009 |
Sources
- 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 352، 372، 444، 516، 521 (2) 103، 158، 465، 467 (3) 26، 171 (4) 19، 40، 48، 396 (5) 15، 251 [Arabic].
- 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 251 [Arabic].
- 3Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 18, 41, 52, 55, 106, 145, 208, 209, 220, 222, 229, 230, 231, 232, 239, 243, 246, 247, 248, 251, 252, 253, 256, 261, 271, 283, 291, 316, 317, 319, 325, 326, 328, 331, 335, 340, 342, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 357, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 379, 386, 397, 402, 405, 408, 411, 420, 428 [Arabic].
- Jesus: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 17, 29, 132, 190, 192, 206, 212, 213-14, 221, 231, 232, 237–8, 241, 249, 258, 280, 321, 323, 330, 333, 338, 345, 346-8, 350, 351-2, 353-4, 355, 356, 357, 358-61, 372, 373, 396, 411, 426 [English].
- 4Ibn 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]), 1:297 [Arabic].
- Messiah: 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, 118 [English].
- 5Ibn 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]), 1:328 [Arabic].
- Jesus the Messiah: 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, 146 [English].
- 6Ibn 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]), 1:242, 244, 249, 326-328; 2:250, 255 [Arabic].
- Jesus: 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, 74, 77, 79, 80, 144-46; II, 506, 510 [English].
- 7Jesus: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 2.50, 55; 3.17, 26, 28, 29, 40-42; 4.12; 8.49, 58; 10.14 [Greek with English translation].
- 8Jesus: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 9.35 [Greek with English translation].
- 9Jesus the Nazarene: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 9, 21 [Hebrew with English translation].
- 10Jesus: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 33-34, 48 [Persian with English translation].
- 11Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 91 [Syriac].
- Jésus-Christ: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 137, 138, 139, 140, 142, 152, 160; II, 214 [French].
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Jesus” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/7.
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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 collection and 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 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
- Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
- McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle