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Filasṭīn (region)

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A region in southern Syria

Names

  • Arabic: فلسطين = Filasṭīn 1-3
  • Greek: Παλαιστίνη, Παλαιστίνῃ, Παλαιστίνην = Palaistinē, Palaistinē, Palaistinēn 4
  • Latin: Palestina 5
  • Latin: Philistiim 6
  • Syriac: ܦܐܠܣܛܝܢܝ = PʾLSṬYNY 7

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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
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 4 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 5-6 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 7 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 368، 523 (2) 41، 145، 408 (3) 325 (4) 46، 274 (5) 425 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 129, 139, 145, 146, 159, 160, 163, 172, 174, 177, 235, 243, 245, 267, 272, 280, 296, 298, 302, 425 [Arabic].
    • Filasțīn: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 116, 127, 133–4, 143, 144, 145, 148, 157, 160, 216, 253, 260, 299, 433 [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]), 1:254 [Arabic].
    • Filasṭīn: 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, 82 [English].
  • 4Palestine: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.28, 39, 41 [Greek with English translation].
  • 5Palestina: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 1. 3, IV 19, XIII 12. [Latin].
  • 6Philistiim: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 1. 3, IX 5. 20, XIII 12. [Latin].
  • 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 9 [Syriac].
    • Palestine: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 18, 20, 89, 119, 262; II, 39, 49, 69, 71, 89, 90, 127, 128, 130, 173, 238-240, 374, 379, 401, 403, 410, 413, 419, 425, 468, 526; III, 8, 21, 22, 59, 61, 76, 103, 110, 122, 123, 154, 170, 172, 175, 182, 193, 202, 226, 241, 304, 334, 348, 357, 367, 374, 379, 386 [French].
    • Palestine: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), xv, xvii, 32, 36, 44, 60, 82, 102, 144, 150, 180, 304, 346, 368, 382, 394, 404, 418, 464 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Filasṭīn” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/11366.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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