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Nile (river)

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The river of Egypt

Names

  • Arabic: النيل = al-Nīl 1, 3-4
  • Arabic: نيل = Nīl 2
  • Greek: Νεῖλος = Neilos 5
  • Hebrew: אל ניל = ʾL NYL 6
  • Hebrew: היאור = HYʾWR 7
  • Hebrew: היאר = HYʾR 8
  • Hebrew: נילוס = NYLWS 9
  • Hebrew: פישון = PYShWN 10
  • Latin: Nilus 11
  • Persian: نیل = Nīl 12
  • Syriac: ܢܝܠܘܣ = NYLWS 13

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
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 4 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 5 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 6-10 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 11 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 12 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 13 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 331 (3) 367 (5) 138، 140، 175، 176، 178، 194، 209، 214، 215، 217، 218، 223، 228، 245، 309، 334 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 145, 161, 390, 427 [Arabic].
    • Nile River: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 133, 146, 400, 435 [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]), 1:195, 197-198, 200-203, 207-210 [Arabic].
    • The Nile: 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, 32, 36, 39-42, 48-51 [English].
  • 4Ibn 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]), 3:114 [Arabic].
    • The Nile: 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), III, 626 [English].
  • 5Nile: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.40-41 [Greek with English translation].
  • 6Nile: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 98 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 7Nile: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 99-102 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 8Nile: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 99 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 9Nile: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 99 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 10Pishon: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 96, 98 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 11Nilus: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IV 8, XIII 12. [Latin].
  • 12Nile River: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 50-54 [Persian with English translation].
  • 13Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 8 [Syriac].
    • Nil: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 15, 26, 38, 45, 318; II, 375, 517; III, 62, 79, 82, 328 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Nile” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/719.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; 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
  • 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
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • 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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