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Ifrīqiyya (region)

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North Africa

Names

  • Arabic: إفريقية = Ifrīqiyya 1-2
  • Arabic: إفريقية = Ifrīqiya 3
  • Greek: Λιβύης, Λιβύην = Libyēs, Libyēn 4
  • Greek: Λιβύης, Λιβύην = Libyēs, Libyēn 5
  • Hebrew: אפריקיה = ʾPRYQYH 6
  • Syriac: ܐܦܪܝܩܝ = ʾPRYQY 7

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
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 4-5 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 6 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 7 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 136، 228، 278، 314، 339، 425 (2) 156، 299، 374 (3) 50، 142، 144، 155، (3) 223، 354، 391، 405 (4) 4، 21، 29، 33، 46، 249، 308، 389، 442 (5) 56، 109، 296، 339 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 189, 289, 290, 429 [Arabic].
    • Ifrīqiyā: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 176, 287, 438 [English].
  • 3Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:169 [Arabic].
    • Ifrīqiya: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 15 [English].
  • 4Africa: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.3-4 [Greek with English translation].
  • 5North Africa: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 2.32, 58; 3.18, 20, 41, 42, 61; 4.38; 5.13, 76-77 [Greek with English translation].
  • 6Africa: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 2, 106 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 10 [Syriac].
    • Afrique: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 18, 111, 197, 267; II, 26, 240, 378, 435, 440, 441, 454, 503, 522, 526; III, 60 [French].
    • Africa: 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), 60 & n.124, 62 & n.202, 64, 74, 76, 88, 96, 105, 108, 110, 116, 118 &.261, 120, 124, 130 n.401, 132 n.409, 136 n.429, 144, 148, 150, 152, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 170. 186, 188, 190 n.363, 198, 206, 208, 218, 232, 252, 254 n.721, 260, 272 & n.765, 274, 276, 286, 288 n.798, 296, 298, 300 & n.832, 314, 320, 326, 344, 354, 368, 374, 394, 396, 398 & n.1094, 402, 404, 410, 426 & n.1142, 436 & n.1173, 448, 450 & n.1202, 454, 458, 466, 468 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Ifrīqiyya” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/2026.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • 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
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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