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Mecca (settlement)

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a city in the Arabian Peninsula

Names

  • Arabic: مكة = Makka 1, 6
  • Arabic: البلد الحرام = al-Balad al-Ḥarām 2
  • Arabic: البنية = al-Baniyya 3
  • Arabic: الحاطمة = al-Ḥāṭima 4
  • Arabic: بلدة = Balda 5
  • Arabic: مكة = al-Makka 7-8
  • Greek: Μεκέ = Meke 9
  • Hebrew: מכה = MKH 10
  • Latin: Mecca 11-12
  • Latin: Mecha 13
  • Persian: مکّه (40, 47, 48 ,55, 77, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93) = Makka 14
  • Syriac: ܡܐܟܗ = MʾKH 15

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-5 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 6 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 8 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 7 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 9 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 10 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 11 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 12-13 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 14 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 15 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 109، 119، 135، 195، 211، 214، 215، 222، 233، 246، 249، 252، 256، 273، 298، 301، 302، 340، 362، 399، 400، 407، 413، 444، 452، 480، 521، 523، 531 (2) 10، 15، 49، 68، 78، 98، 110، 114، 116، 128، 130، 142، 159، 189، 218، 225، 264، 277، 297، 299، 313، 387، 411، 455، 458، 490 (3) 70، 107، 146، 165، 178، 182، 208، 211، 212، 217، 219، 226، 229، 261، 276، 315، 317، 338، 345، 351، 353، 364، 378، 390، 411، 452، 453 (4) 37، 45، 51، 67، 71، 85، 115، 119، 127، 211، 214، 225، 277، 311، 313، 355، 379، 439، 479 (5) 11، 54، 76، 95، 104، 108، 116، 134، 181، 194، 202، 211، 288، 293، 299، 333، 360، 364، 382، 422، 432 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 481 [Arabic].
  • 3Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 502 [Arabic].
  • 4Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 207 [Arabic].
  • 5Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 483 [Arabic].
  • 6Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 22, 28, 66, 84, 88, 144, 163, 165, 166, 171, 172, 173, 187, 189, 190, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 217, 218, 219, 239, 331, 343, 344, 355, 367, 379, 380, 398, 400, 402, 404, 408, 411, 425, 426 [Arabic].
    • Mecca: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 10, 16, 19, 45, 74, 75, 121, 149, 151, 181–3, 184, 185-6, 193-4, 195, 196, 200, 201, 220, 339, 348-9, 376-7, 383, 389, 409-10, 413 [English].
  • 7Ibn 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]), 1:187, 190, 226, 367-392, 396-405, 410-411, 413; 2:72 [Arabic].
    • Mecca: 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, 24, 27, 64, 187-222, 228-49, 252; II, 339 [English].
  • 8Ibn 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]), 4:181-182 [Arabic].
    • Mecca: 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, 920 [English].
  • 9Mecca: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.18 [Greek with English translation].
  • 10Mecca: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 55 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 11Mecca: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 4. [Latin].
  • 12Mecca: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XX 70. XXXIV 25. [Latin].
  • 13Mecha: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XX 70. [Latin].
  • 14Mecca: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 40, 47, 48, 55, 77, 88-92 [Persian with English translation].
  • 15Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 449 [Syriac].
    • Mecque (La): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 470, 518, 527; III, 353 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Mecca” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/620.

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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; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization 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 from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • 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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