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Market-places

URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/174

A practice

Names

  • Arabic: سوق = sūq 1
  • Arabic: قيسارية = qaysāriyya 2
  • Hebrew: שוקים = ShWQYM 3
  • Persian: بازارها = bāzārhā 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1-2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela3 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw4 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

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]), 1:387; 2:18 [Arabic].
    • bazaar: 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, 215; II, 283 [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]), 1:276, 421; 2:81, 224; 3:9 [Arabic].
    • qaisarīya: 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, 97, 256; II, 349, 480; III, 541 [English].
  • 3Market-places: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 99 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Markets: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 16 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Liran Yadgar, and Mary Papadopoulos, “Market-places” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/174.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; matching, Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Liran Yadgar: Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching and Persian collection/transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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