ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh b. Ḥamdān Sayf al-Dawla

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/7457

Hamdanid ruler of Aleppo

Names

  • Arabic: علي بن عبد الله بن حمدان سيف الدولة = ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh b. Ḥamdān Sayf al-Dawla 1
  • Arabic: ابن حمدان = Ibn Ḥamdān 2
  • Arabic: سيف الدولة = Sayf al-Dawla 3
  • Syriac: ܒܪ ܚܡܕܢ = BR ḤMDΝ 4

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

to Sort:
Show table of instances where this person is mentioned
Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2-3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 55، 70، 114، 151، 153، 177، 199، 240، 452، 477 (2) 7، 40، 80، 94، 105، 150، 228، 265، 310، 359، 418، 494، 531 (3) 3، 51، 253، 362، 388، 413 (4) 29، 96، 109، 110، 177 387، 393، 404 (5) 21، 178، 370 [Arabic].
  • 2Ibn 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]), 1:274 [Arabic].
    • Ibn Ḥamdān: 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, 95 [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]), 1:274 [Arabic].
    • Saif al-Dawla: 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, 96 [English].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 556 [Syriac].
    • Bar Hamdan (‘Alî ibn ‘Abdallah): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 123, 127, 128 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh b. Ḥamdān Sayf al-Dawla” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/7457.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
Show additional credits