al-Jamra (mountain pass)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/4744

A place near Mecca

Names

Arabic: الجمرة = al-Jamra 1
Arabic: عقبة الجمرة = ʿAqabat al-Jamra 2

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 2	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 162، 380 (4) 419 (2) 56 [Arabic].
2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 131, 211 [Arabic].
- `Aqabat al-Jamra: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 119, 193 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “al-Jamra” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/4744.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; 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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