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Dhū l-Khalṣa

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An idol worshipped in pre-Islamic southern Arabia by various Yemeni tribes

Names

  • Arabic: ذو الخلصة = Dhū l-Khalṣa 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), 269, 289, 302, 365 [Arabic].
    • Dhū al-Khalṣa: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 256, 288, 306, 375 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Dhū l-Khalṣa” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/400.

Additional credit information:

  • 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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