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Persia (region)

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Iran as a whole

Names

  • Arabic: فارس = Fārs 1
  • Hebrew: פרס = PRS 2
  • Latin: Persia 3
  • Latin: Persis 4-5
  • Syriac: ܦܪܣ = PRS 6

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 2 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 3-4 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 5 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 6 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 67, 121, 239, 251, 259, 292, 302, 304 [Arabic].
    • Persia: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 51, 108, 220, 236, 245, 292, 307, 311 [English].
  • 2Persia: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 20, 52, 57, 62, 67, 73-81, 82, 86-89, 96 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3Persia: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 9. [Latin].
  • 4Persis: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIII 7. [Latin].
  • 5Persis: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIV 8, XXXVI 3. [Latin].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 8 [Syriac].
    • Perse: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 15, 18, 197, 281; II, 16, 160, 173, 240, 244, 374, 401, 410, 413, 414, 417, 419, 421, 474, 503, 522; III, 16, 19, 61, 78, 124, 149, 151, 154, 157, 158, 226, 276, 348, 357, 369, 408, 413, 463, 524 [French].
    • Persia: 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), xviii, 4, 114, 150, 246, 368, 384, 422, 460, 468 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Persia” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17281.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: place categorization; abstract; and categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • 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
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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