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A building for Christian worship

Names

  • Arabic: كنائس = kanāʾis 1
  • Hebrew: במה = BMH 2-4
  • Persian: کلیسا = kalīsā 5

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela2-4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw5 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]), 3:33 [Arabic].
    • churches: 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), III, 565 [English].
  • 2church: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 8, 10, 20, 21, 35, 38, 40, 42 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3place of worship: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 37 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4structure: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 31 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Churches: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 11, 27, 47-48 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Liran Yadgar, and Mary Papadopoulos, “church” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/179.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; 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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