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ʿAyn Shams (settlement)

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A ruined city in Egypt

Names

  • Arabic: عين شمس = ʿAyn Shams 1
  • Hebrew: עין אל שמס = ʿYN ʾL ShMS 2
  • Persian: عین الشّمس = ʿAyn al-Shams 3

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 2 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 3 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 87 (3) 238 (4) 178 (5) 78، 132 [Arabic].
  • 2Ain-al-Shams: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 103 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3Heliopolis: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 65 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Liran Yadgar, and Mary Papadopoulos, “ʿAyn Shams” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/10791.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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