Kaʿb al-Aḥbār

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/8793

A person

Names

  • Arabic: كعب الأحبار = Kaʿb al-Aḥbār 1-2

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

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 157 (2) 303، 464، 468 (4) 367، 386 (5) 167، 177 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 22, 30, 31, 36, 39, 46, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 64, 65, 68, 69, 73, 81, 82, 86, 105, 106, 113, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 133, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 150, 154, 156, 159, 160, 161, 165, 166, 164, 167, 172, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 181, 186, 187, 189, 190, 199, 203, 205, 207, 216, 218, 220, 221, 225, 230, 231, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 251, 255, 256, 257, 261, 264, 268, 269, 270, 271, 273, 274, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 285, 286, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 296, 297, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 305, 306, 314, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 325, 327, 329, 330, 337, 342, 343, 344, 347, 348, 349, 352, 355, 358, 359, 360, 361, 364, 365, 369, 372, 378, 379, 381, 394, 408, 409, 411, 412, 414, 416, 418, 419, 423, 19, 21, 76, 373 [Arabic].
    • Ka`b al-Aḥbār: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 7, 10, 11, 19, 20, 25, 27, 34, 41, 42, 43-4, 50, 51, 52, 56, 60, 65, 71, 89, 91, 97, 98, 104, 106, 108, 109, 111, 112, 114, 115, 117, 121, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 135, 139, 141, 144, 145, 146, 151, 150, 153, 156, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 167, 173, 176, 177, 182, 186, 188, 190, 199, 201, 203, 204, 205, 209, 213, 214, 215, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 223, 224, 225, 227, 228, 230, 231, 232, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 249, 253, 255, 256, 258, 262, 264, 269, 271, 273, 274, 275, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 289, 291, 292, 293, 298, 299, 300, 304, 305, 307, 308, 309, 312, 313-14, 319, 322, 323, 324, 326, 327, 328, 329, 331, 334, 335, 337, 346, 347, 348, 351, 353, 355, 359, 360, 361, 362, 364, 365, 368, 369, 370, 373, 375, 378, 380, 381, 388, 389, 392, 405, 415, 416, 418, 419, 422, 423, 425, 426, 429, 430, 435 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Kaʿb al-Aḥbār” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/8793.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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