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Valley of Jahannam (region)

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A valley outside of Jerusalem.

Names

  • Arabic: وادي جهنم = Wādī Jahannam 1-2
  • Latin: Gehennon uallis 3
  • Latin: Tophet 4
  • Persian: وادی جهنّم = Wādī-yi Jahannam 5

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 3-4 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 5 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (4) 178 [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]), 1:249 [Arabic].
    • ‘Valley of Jahannam’: 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, 79 [English].
  • 3Gehennon uallis: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VIII 1. 5 6. [Latin].
  • 4Tophet: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VIII 1. 6. [Latin].
  • 5Gehenna, Valley of: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 29 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Valley of Jahannam” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/1002.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Mary Papadopoulos: abstract and categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Evan Willford: matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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