Idol of Alexandria (building)
URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/17603
Names
- Arabic: صنم إسكندرية = Ṣanam Iskandariyya 1
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| Event Description | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before 843 CE | c. 820-843 CE | 687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE | 1993 |
Sources
- 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 321 [Arabic].
- Idol of Alexandria: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 326 [English].
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Idol of Alexandria” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17603.
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- Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
- Jessica Mutter: place categorization and categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan