Arab Iraq (region)

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A historical region corresponding with today's central-southern Iraq

Names

  • Arabic: عراق العرب = ʿIrāq al-ʿArab 1
  • Latin: Caldea 2
  • Latin: Chaldea 3

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 1 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 3 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 2 c. 1289c.129014th C1864

Sources

  • 1Ibn 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]), 1:288; 2:18 [Arabic].
    • ʿIrāq al-ʿArab: 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, 108; II, 283 [English].
  • 2Caldea: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), X 44. [Latin].
  • 3Chaldea: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 9, I 2. [Latin].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Evan Willford, and Margaret Gaida, “Arab Iraq” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/8.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Evan Willford: Syriac Gazetter matching and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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