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Dead Sea (open water)

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A place

Names

  • Arabic: البحيرة المنتنة = al-Buḥayrat al-Muntana 1
  • Arabic: بحيرة لوط = Buḥayrat Lūṭ 2
  • Hebrew: ים סדום = YM SDWM 3
  • Hebrew: ים המלח = YM HMLḤ 4
  • Latin: Alphates 5
  • Latin: lacus aspalti 6
  • Latin: Iudee lacus 7
  • Latin: mare maledictum 8
  • Latin: mare mortuum 9-10
  • Latin: mare salinarum 11
  • Latin: mare salis 12
  • Persian: دریای لوط = Daryā-yi Lūṭ 13

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 3-4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 6-7, 9, 11-12 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 8, 10 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 5 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 13 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 380 [Arabic].
    • Dead Sea: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 390 [English].
  • 2Ibn 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]), 1:243 [Arabic].
    • lake of Lot: 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, 76 [English].
  • 3Sea of Sodom: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 37, 44 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Salt Sea: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 44 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Alphates: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), LV 1, LVI 1. 2. [Latin].
  • 6lacus aspalti: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 41, 46. [Latin].
  • 7Iudee lacus: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 46. [Latin].
  • 8mare maledictum: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IV 45. [Latin].
  • 9mare mortuum: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 18, I 3.4 V 15. 16, VII 13. 40. 41. 45. 46. 52. 54, VIII 1. 3, IX 12. 19. 20, XI 2. [Latin].
  • 10mare mortuum: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IV 45. [Latin].
  • 11mare salinarum: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 33. [Latin].
  • 12mare salis: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 41. 46. [Latin].
  • 13Dead Sea: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 23 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Dead Sea” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/350.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; Wikipedia matching; and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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