al-Marwa (mountain)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/13642

A hill in Mecca

Names

Arabic: المروة = al-Marwa 1-3
Persian: مروه = Marwa 4

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 2	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 3	before 1354 CE	1354-1356	early 1180 A.H. / 1766	1997
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 4	c. 1050	circa 1065	10th C Hijrī/16th C CE	2001

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 544 (3) 378، 411 (5) 116، 134 [Arabic].
2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 405 [Arabic].
- Marwā, Hill of: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 414 [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]), 1:355, 367, 380-381 [Arabic].
- al-Marwa: 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, 172, 188, 205-6 [English].
4Marwa: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 89-91 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Mary Papadopoulos, “al-Marwa” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/13642.

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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; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue

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