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beardless men

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considered a type of physical deformity

Names

  • Armenian: քաւսա = kʻawsa 1

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Event mentioned by T‘awak‘al.1 1400140014001955

Sources

  • 1L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), I: p. 3, n.1 [Armenian].
    • k‘awsa: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1400 (no. 5) [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and McKenzie Cady, “beardless men” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/347.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
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