monastery

URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/133

A place where multiple monks or nuns live together

Names

Arabic: مانستار, مانستارات = mānistār, mānistārāt 1
Hebrew: במה = BMH 2

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1	before 1354 CE	1354-1356	early 1180 A.H. / 1766	1997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela2	before c.1170	c.1173	13th C	1907

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]), 2:255-256 [Arabic].
- monastery: 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, 511 [English].
2convent: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 107 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Liran Yadgar, “monastery” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/133.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching, Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Liran Yadgar: Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue

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