Ḥarrān (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/5189

A village near Aleppo

Names

  • Arabic: حران = Ḥarrān 1-2
  • Syriac: ܚܪܐ = ḤRʾ 3
  • Syriac: ܚܪܢ = ḤRN 4

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
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) 309، 313 (2) 236 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 179, 180, 430, 431 [Arabic].
    • Ḥarrān: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 164, 165, 166, 439–41 [English].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 9 [Syriac].
    • Ḥara: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 17 [French].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 15 [Syriac].
    • Ḥarran: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 27, 36, 43, 61, 187, 281, 282; II, 174, 375, 376, 412, 413, 445, 459, 461, 493, 496, 501, 503, 505, 506, 511, 517, 519, 520, 524, 525; III, 3, 10, 11, 22, 27, 31, 32, 34, 35, 47, 52, 62, 74, 80, 104, 120, 121, 126, 130, 139, 161, 163, 171, 179, 195, 211, 239, 260, 272, 289, 359, 361, 365, 389, 397, 404, 405, 409-411, 450, 451, 457-461, 473, 474, 499, 523 [French].
    • Ḥarrān: 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), xvi, 14 nn.40, 43, 45, 16, 34, 31, 34, 38 n.119, 50, 86, 122, 176, 218, 240, 268 & n.755, 274, 366, 370, 276, 428, 438, 450, 460, 462, 464 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Ḥarrān” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/5189.

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 categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • 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
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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