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Mt. Tabor (mountain)

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A place

Names

  • Arabic: جبل ثابور = Jabal Thābūr 1
  • Latin: Itabyrion 2
  • Latin: Tabor 3-4
  • Latin: Thabor 5
  • Syriac: ܛܘܪ ܬܒܘܪ = ṬWR TBWR 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 Burchard of Mount Sion 2-3 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 5 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 4 1318-13301330c. 13501864
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), 327, 388 [Arabic].
    • Mt. Tabor: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 332, 398 [English].
  • 2Itabyrion: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XI 7. [Latin].
  • 3Tabor: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IV 6, V 5, VI 8 - 10, VII 1. 14. 49, XI 8. [Latin].
  • 4Tabor: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), V VI. [Latin].
  • 5Thabor: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 30. 32. 37, IV 53. [Latin].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 167 [Syriac].
    • Thabor (mont): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 4, 510 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Mt. Tabor” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17635.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: place categorization; categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan; and categorization, matching 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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