Pyramids (building)
URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/748
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| Event Description | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before 843 CE | c. 820-843 CE | 687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE | 1993 | |
| before 1354 CE | 1354-1356 | early 1180 A.H. / 1766 | 1997 | |
| before c.1170 | c.1173 | 13th C | 1907 | |
| before 1199 | 1195-1199? | 1598 | 2009 |
Sources
- 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 289 [Arabic].
- Pyramids: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 287 [English].
- 2Ibn 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]), 1:209 [Arabic].
- Pyramids: 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, 50-52 [English].
- 3store-houses of Joseph: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 102 [Hebrew with English translation].
- 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 529 [Syriac].
- pyramides d’Égypte: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 82 [French].
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Pyramids” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/748.
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- Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration 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 from Michael's chronicle
- Evan Willford: matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
- Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
- McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle