al-Aʿmāq (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/1982

A place

Names

  • Arabic: الأعماق = al-Aʿmāq 1-2

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 222 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 249, 257, 271, 284-285, 288, 290, 295, 300, 431 [Arabic].
    • Al-A'maq: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), xxx–xxxi, xxxv, 234, 242–87, 300, 440–1 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “al-Aʿmāq” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/1982.

Additional credit information:

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