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Medina (settlement)

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town of Muḥammad

Names

  • Arabic: يثرب = Yathrib 1, 8
  • Arabic: المدينة = al-Madīna 2, 6, 11
  • Arabic: طيبة = Ṭayba 3, 7, 10, 12
  • Arabic: البحرة = al-Baḥra 4
  • Arabic: البحيرة = al-Buḥayra 5
  • Arabic: مدينة رسول الله = Madīnat Rasūl Allāh 9
  • Persian: مدینه رسول = Madīnat-i Rasūl 13
  • Persian: مدینه = Madīna 14
  • Persian: مدینه رسول الله = Madīnat-i Rasūl-i Allāh 15
  • Persian: مدینه شریفه = Madīna Sharīfa 16
  • Syriac: ܝܬܪܒ = YTRB 17

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. 6-8 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 12 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 9-11 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 13-16 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 17 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 90، 447 (2) 78، 151، (3) 412 (4) 54، 351، 493 (5) 3، 82، 105، 120، 135، 144، 430، 442 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 90، 94، 101، 102، 109، 111، 118، 121، 125، 166، 167، 183، 200، 213، 214، 219، 220، 223، 227، 233، 242، 245، 248، 250، 265، 275، 283، 298، 301، 341، 346، 358، 373، 390، 401، 403، 410، 413، 446، 449، 450، 451، 472، 473، 477، 478، 483، 501، 535 (2) 84، 86، 92، 111، 115، 117، 128، 163، 175، 201، 204، 206، 211، 238، 261، 262، 272، 277، 295، 306، 320، 332، 342، 344، 364، 372، 379، 387، 422، 423، 480، 487 (3) 3، 12، 13، 22، 26، 33، 37، 51، 58، 62، 75، 89، 93، 95، 96، 110، 111، 114، 115، 140، 141، 156، 163، 219، 221، 223، 228، 237، 242، 254، 255، 265، 286، 287، 288، 292، 317، 322، 325، 331، 335، 360، 380، 385، 389، 397، 398، 412، 414، 432، 438، 459 (4) 91، 113، 125، 144، 158، 166، 168، 182، 214، 228، 238، 267، 278، 303، 314، 316، 340، 366، 383، 401، 412، 468، 474، 497 (5) 3، 36، 66، 82، 88، 96، 98، 99، 106، 120، 128، 133، 164، 180، 202، 229، 234، 243، 251، 277، 278، 293، 297، 301، 305، 310، 341، 354، 398، 410، 429، 430، 440 [Arabic].
  • 3Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 421 (4) 53 [Arabic].
  • 4Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 346 [Arabic].
  • 5Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 346 [Arabic].
  • 6Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 28, 30, 57, 59, 66, 81, 91, 145, 166, 176, 177, 187, 199, 200, 201, 239, 262, 269, 377, 380 [Arabic].
    • Medina: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 16, 19, 45, 65, 78, 88, 132, 151, 161, 173–4, 181–3, 184-6, 196-7, 220, 251-2, 256, 259, 344, 348-9, 383, 386, 389–90, 392-3, 394, 443 [English].
  • 7Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 262, 263 [Arabic].
    • Țayyiba: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 252 [English].
  • 8Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 272, 431 [Arabic].
    • Yathrib: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 259, 443 [English].
  • 9Ibn 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]), 1:316, 348, 412 [Arabic].
    • City of the Apostle of God: 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, 135, 163, 250 [English].
  • 10Ibn 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]), 1:349, 412 [Arabic].
    • Ṭaiba: 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, 163, 250 [English].
  • 11Ibn 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]), 1:186, 351-364, 412; 2:71 [Arabic].
    • al-Madīna: 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, 23, 167-84, 250-51; II, 339 [English].
  • 12Ibn 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]), 4:182 [Arabic].
    • Ṭaiba: 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, 921 [English].
  • 13Medina: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 40, 55 [Persian with English translation].
  • 14Medina: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 55-56, 77, 78, 79, 88 [Persian with English translation].
  • 15Medina: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 76 [Persian with English translation].
  • 16Medina: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 79 [Persian with English translation].
  • 17Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 408 [Syriac].
    • Yatreb: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 403, 408, 421, 450, 468, 469, 522 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Medina” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/936.

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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; 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
  • 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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