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monk

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A male Christian ascetic who has taken a vow of celibacy

Names

  • Arabic: رهبان = ruhbān 2
  • Armenian: կալոգերոսք = kalogeroskʻ 3
  • Hebrew: כומרים = KWMRYM 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1-2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Abraham Ankiwrats‘i.3 before 1453late 15th C16171957
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907

Sources

  • 1Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 2:249 [Arabic].
    • monk: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), II, 505 [English].
  • 2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 2:256-258 [Arabic].
    • monk: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), II, 512-13 [English].
  • 3H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 35-55 [Armenian].
    • kalogerosk‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 3) [English].
  • 4monks: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 107 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, McKenzie Cady, and Liran Yadgar, “monk” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 10, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/41.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; and matching, Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • Liran Yadgar: Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
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