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Ḥimṣ (settlement)

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a city in Syria

Names

  • Arabic: الحلة = al-Ḥilla 1
  • Arabic: حلة بني مزيد = Ḥillat Banī Mazyad 2
  • Arabic: حمص = Ḥimṣ 3
  • Arabic: حمص = Ḥimṣ 4-5
  • Hebrew: חמצן = ḤMṢN 6
  • Persian: حمص = Ḥimṣ 7
  • Syriac: ܚܡܨ = ḤMṢ 8

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 3 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 5 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 4 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 6 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 7 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 8 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 309، 412، 470 (3) 278، 402 (5) 132 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 96، 294 (3) 372 (4) 183، 242 (5) 122، 334، 353 [Arabic].
  • 3Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 65, 113, 114, 120, 121, 137, 145, 146, 148, 154, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 172, 176, 177, 178, 179, 181, 182, 191, 254, 255, 256, 259, 267, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279, 280, 281, 282, 286, 300, 304, 305, 389, 424, 425, 426 [Arabic].
    • Ḥimṣ: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 98, 99–100, 108, 125, 133, 134, 142, 145, 147, 149, 150, 163, 164, 168, 177, 238-41, 245, 253, 263-4, 265, 268-9, 270, 273-4, 275, 276-7, 278, 284, 305, 309, 312, 314, 399, 434 [English].
  • 4Ibn 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]), 1:266, 271 [Arabic].
    • Ḥimṣ: 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, 90, 93 [English].
  • 5Ibn 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]), 4:178 [Arabic].
    • Ḥimṣ: 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), IV, 917 [English].
  • 6Emesa: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 49 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 7Homs: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 14 [Persian with English translation].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 96 [Syriac].
    • Émèse (auj. Homs): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 149; II, 178, 240, 412, 421, 431, 442, 461, 472, 492, 505, 525; III, 8, 22, 49, 53, 120, 192, 217, 255, 312, 316, 325, 334, 339, 365, 372, 373, 409, 498 [French].
    • Emesa: 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), 50 n. 156, 78, 132, 134, 208, 326, 390, 392, 394, 462 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Ḥimṣ” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/433.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; Syriac Gazetter matching; Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates; and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Liran Yadgar: abstract and categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • 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
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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