ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣī

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Muslim Arab governor of Egypt

Names

  • Arabic: عمرو بن العاصي = ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣī 1
  • Arabic: عمرو بن العاص = ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ 2-3
  • Persian: عمرو عاص = ʿAmr-i ʿĀṣ 4
  • Syriac: ܣܥܝܕ = SʿYD 5

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.3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw4 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian5 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 100، 124، 130، 148، 186، 188، 229، 269، 389، 475، 492 (2) 27، 101، 118، 200، 294، 386، 412، 489 (3) 22، 145، 184، 210، 236، 284، 328 (4) 17، 25، 57، 115، 144، 256، 262، 411، 458 (5) 137، 138، 174، 176، 223، 256، 297، 303، 334، 386، 434 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 32, 70, 245, 251, 292, 405, 433 [Arabic].
    • `Amr b. al-`Āṣ: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 21, 54, 237, 295, 414 [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]), 1:203, 210 [Arabic].
    • ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ: 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, 42-43, 51 [English].
  • 4Amr b. al-As: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 68 [Persian with English translation].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 437 [Syriac].
    • Sa‘îd: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 450 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/7952.

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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 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 and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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