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al-Ḥīra (settlement)

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town of Mesopotamia, near Kufa

Names

  • Arabic: الحيرة = al-Ḥīra 1
  • Arabic: حيرة = Ḥīra 2
  • Syriac: ܚܝܪܬܐ ܕܢܥܡܢ = ḤYRTʾ DNʿMN 3
  • Syriac: ܚܝܪܐ = ḤYRʾ 4

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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 Michael the Syrian 3-4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 242، 272، 294، 332، 431، 473، 516، 535 (2) 128، 140، 146، 272، 328، 401، 452، 496، 498، 505، 507، 517، 521، 523، 524، 530، 541 (3) 156، 201، 266، 298 (4) 159، 250 (4) 292، 305، 335، 354، 362، 431، 493 (5) 15، 199، 409، 454 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 380, 412 [Arabic].
    • Ḥīra: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 108n, 419 [English].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 276 [Syriac].
    • Ḥîrta de Na‘man: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 184, 245, 264, 308, 325, 421, 489; III, 36 [French].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 503 [Syriac].
    • Ḥîra: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 36 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “al-Ḥīra” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/483.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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