Taymāʾ (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/4168

A town in Arabia on the hajj route from Damascus

Names

  • Arabic: تيماء = Taymāʾ 1-2
  • Hebrew: תימא = TYMʾ 3

Temporal Data

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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
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 3 before c.1170c.117313th C1907

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 75، 94، 103، 223، 377 (2) 67، 229، 248، 263، 278، 322، 437، 442 (3) 51، 75، 129، 251، 367، 388 (4) 99، 111، 147، 204، 211، 335 (5) 14، 20 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 113, 419 [Arabic].
    • Taymā’: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 98, 426 [English].
  • 3Teima: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 70, 71 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Liran Yadgar, “Taymāʾ” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/4168.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • 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
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