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Sīnā (mountain)

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a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula

Names

  • Arabic: سينا = Sīnā 1
  • Arabic: طور سيناء = Ṭūr Sīnāʾ 2
  • Hebrew: סיני = SYNY 3
  • Latin: Sinay 4
  • Syriac: ܣܝܢܝ = SYNY 5

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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
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 3 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 4 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 5 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 300 (4) 225 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 149, 344, 356, 357, 360, 361, 362 [Arabic].
    • Mt. Sinai: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 134, 362–3, 368, 370, 371, 398 [English].
  • 3Sinai: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 107 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Sinay: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), V 16. [Latin].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 26 [Syriac].
    • Sinaï (mont): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 41, 90, 282 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Sīnā” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/8828.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • 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
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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