Constantinople, destruction/conquest of

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Constantinople will be destroyed and/or conquered in the early Islamic conception of the apocalypse

Names

  • Arabic: فتح القسطنطينية = Fatḥ al-Qusṭanṭīniyya 1

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Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 4, 213, 214, 246, 252, 257, 259, 261, 268, 274, 280, 281, 283, 284, 285, 287, 288, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 330, 332, 348, 349, 362, 379, 421 [Arabic].
    • Constantinople, destruction/conquest of: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), xxxv, 196, 218, 226, 228, 230, 244–9, 261, 275, 277, 280–1, 284, 292, 294–5, 297, 303, 304–5, 306, 308, 310, 311, 322–3, 325–7, 353 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Constantinople, destruction/conquest of” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/393.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract and categorization, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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