Christianity

URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/391

A practice

Names

  • Arabic: النصرانية = al-Naṣrāniyya 1
  • Hebrew: דת הנוצרים = DT HNWṢRYM 2-3

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela2-3 before c.1170c.117313th C1907

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 278, 293 [Arabic].
    • Christianity: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 271, 294 [English].
  • 2Faith of the Nazarenes: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 17 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3the Christian religion: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 62 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Liran Yadgar, “Christianity” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/391.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and matching, Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
  • Liran Yadgar: Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
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