al-Qaryatān (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/11749

A large village in the region of Ḥimṣ

Names

Arabic: حوارين = Ḥuwwārīn 1
Arabic: القريتان = al-Qaryatān 2
Arabic: حوارين = Ḥawārīn 3
Hebrew: קריתין = QRYTYN 4

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 3	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 4	before c.1170	c.1173	13th C	1907

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 205، 315 (3) 269 (4) 336 [Arabic].
2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 157 (3) 269، 271 (4) 170، 336 [Arabic].
3Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 389 [Arabic].
- Ḥawārīn: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 399 [English].
4Karjaten: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 49 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Liran Yadgar, “al-Qaryatān” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/11749.

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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; and Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue

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