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Gate of Banū Makhzūm (building)

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In Mecca, one of the gates to the ḥaram

Names

  • Arabic: باب بني مخزوم = Bāb Banī Makhzūm 1

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Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 401 [Arabic].
    • Gate of Banū Makhzūm: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 409 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Gate of Banū Makhzūm” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17610.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
  • Jessica Mutter: place categorization; abstract; and categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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