Rūmī rugs

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made of sheep's wool

Names

Arabic: البسط الرومية = al-busuṭ al-Rūmiyya 1
Arabic: البسط من صوف الغنم = al-busuṭ min ṣūf al-ghanam 2

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1-2	before 1354 CE	1354-1356	early 1180 A.H. / 1766	1997

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]), 2:165 [Arabic].
- Rūmī rugs: 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), II, 420 [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]), 2:176 [Arabic].
- rugs of sheep’s wool: 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), II, 432 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Rūmī rugs” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/1188.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account

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