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al-Kūfa (settlement)

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City in Iraq

Names

  • Arabic: الكوفة = al-Kūfa 1, 3
  • Arabic: كوفة = Kūfa 2
  • Hebrew: קופה = QWPH 4
  • Persian: کوفه = Kūfa 5
  • Syriac: ܥܩܘܠܐ = ʿQWLʾ 6
  • Syriac: ܟܘܦܗ = KWPH 7

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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
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 5 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 6-7 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 83، 93، 129، 171، 176، 206، 218، 222، 225، 226، 236، 241، 276، 309، 316، 331، 332، 373، 376، 405، 424، 446، 474، 509، 516، 532 (2) 5، 14، 40، 49، 66، 78، 82، 87، 99، 112، 116، 187 (3) 131، 133، 135، 144، 168، 185، 195، 211، 234، 235، 246، 275، 276، 299، 319، 339، 343، 346، 348، 361، 375، 378، 380، 401، 422، 424، 480، 486، 498، 504، 518 (4) 28، 33، 49، 97، 105، 108، 129، 135، 157، 163، 195، 221، 228، 239، 245، 270، 275، 283، 285، 290، 374، 384، 386، 394، 404، 431، 451 (4) 36، 40، 55، 79، 91، 100، 149، 161، 221، 242، 253، 282، 291، 308، 349، 350، 354، 360، 374، 375، 400، 445، 458، 481، 490، 618 (5) 53، 62، 66، 87، 129، 216، 269، 271، 280، 285، 293، 394، 408 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 17, 70, 88, 91, 152, 162, 163, 165, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 187, 190, 192, 193, 198, 199, 204, 213, 218, 268, 273, 280, 324-5, 391, 414, 415, 425, 426 [Arabic].
    • Kūfa: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 53, 78, 149, 157, 158, 162, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 173, 174, 177, 186, 196, 202, 204, 262, 275, 329, 401, 422, 432, 434 [English].
  • 3Ibn 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]), 1:415; 2:53-54 [Arabic].
    • al-Kūfa: 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, 255; II, 322-4 [English].
  • 4Kufa: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 69 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Kufa: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 92 [Persian with English translation].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 419 [Syriac].
    • ‘Aqoula (= Kouphah: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 421, 430, 468, 478, 489, 518; III, 35, 46 [French].
  • 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 419 [Syriac].
    • Kouphah (‘Aqoula): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 421, 430 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “al-Kūfa” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 10, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/536.

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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 from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; Syriac Gazetter matching; Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates; and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract; categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan; and categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • 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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