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Constantinople, mosque/s built in during the apocalypse

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According to Nu'aym b. Hammad, this will happen once the Byzantines and other non-Muslim groups peacefully acquiesce to the Mahdi's rule in the apocalypse

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

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    • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 216, 288, 293-4 [Arabic].
      • Constantinople, mosque/s built in during the apocalypse: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 199, 286, 295 [English].

    How to Cite This Entry

    Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Constantinople, mosque/s built in during the apocalypse” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/394.

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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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