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ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

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caliph

Names

  • Arabic: عمر بن الخطاب = ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb 1-2, 5-6
  • Arabic: أبو حفص عمر الفاروق = Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar al-Fārūq 3
  • Arabic: عمر = ʿUmar 4
  • Greek: Ὀμάρης, Ὀμάρεω, Ὀμάρῃ = Omarēs, Omareō, Omarē 7
  • Hebrew: עמר בן אל כטאב = ʿMR BN ʾL KṬʾB 8
  • Persian: عمر خطّاب = ʿUmar Khaṭṭāb 9
  • Persian: عمر = ʿUmar 10
  • Syriac: ܥܘܡܪ ܒܪ ܟܐܛܐܒ = ʿWMR BR KʾṬʾB 11

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
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.6 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.3-5 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.7 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela8 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw9-10 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian11 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 120، 129، 310، 348، 521 (2) 84، 435 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 22, 54, 56, 57, 60, 64, 67, 68, 70, 75, 138, 161, 167, 237, 342, 407, 408, 410 [Arabic].
    • `Umar b. al-Khațțāb: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 7, 11, 19, 33, 41, 42, 43–4, 45, 47, 49, 51, 52–3, 54, 57, 58, 70, 111, 127, 146, 172, 173, 204–5, 208, 218, 342, 381, 386, 388, 397, 403, 412, 415, 417, 423, 430 [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]), 1:349 [Arabic].
    • Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar al-Fārūq: 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, 164 [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]), 1:351, 353, 355, 361, 362; 2:38 [Arabic].
    • ʿOmar: 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, 165, 167, 169-70, 173, 180, 181; II, 302 [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]), 1:351, 352 [Arabic].
    • ʿOmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb: 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, 165, 168 [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]), 4:141 [Arabic].
    • ʿOmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb: 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), IV, 898 [English].
  • 7‘Umar: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.10; 3.14, 19-20 [Greek with English translation].
  • 8Omar ben al Khataab: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 36, 52 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 9Umar: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 29 [Persian with English translation].
  • 10Umar: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 34-35 [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), 417 [Syriac].
    • ‘Omar Ier: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 417, 421, 424-426, 429, 430; III, 15, 122, 279 (?) [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/7767.

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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; 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
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