Mawālī

URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/427

clients of Arab tribes and/or converts to Islam

Names

  • Arabic: موالي = Mawālī 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), 42, 122, 143, 174, 236, 238, 242, 243, 246, 259, 261, 263, 272, 275, 281, 289, 295, 302, 328, 420, 431, 432 [Arabic].
    • Mawālī: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 109, 131, 159, 179, 217, 224, 230, 243, 246, 250, 252, 259, 266, 277, 288-9, 307, 427, 443 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Mawālī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/427.

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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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