Hiyam

URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/409

Second mahdi of the apocalypse

Names

Arabic: هيم = Hiyam 1

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993

Sources

1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 243 [Arabic].
- Hiyam: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 226 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Hiyam” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/409.

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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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