Comet
URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/392
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| Event Description | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before 843 CE | c. 820-843 CE | 687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE | 1993 | |
| before 1199 | 1195-1199? | 1598 | 2009 |
Sources
- 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 132 [Arabic].
- Comet: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 120 [English].
- 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 165 [Syriac].
- comètes: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 319; II, 9, 22, 170, 205, 271, 284, 419, 456, 470, 471, 524; III, 97, 193, 197, 221, 259, 269, 277, 292 [French].
- Comets: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), xxi, xxiv, 82 & n.270, 94 n.292, 144, 218, 234, 250, 280 [Syriac with English translation].
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Comet” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/392.
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- Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and matching, Syriac name collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
- Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and matching from Michael's chronicle
- McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle