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Michael

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Archangel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Names

  • Arabic: ميكائيل = Mīkāʾīl 1
  • Latin: Sanctus Michael 2

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Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion2 c.1280c.128414th C1864

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 221, 260, 276, 331 [Arabic].
    • Michael: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 204, 247, 267 [English].
  • 2Sanctus Michael: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XII 1. [Latin].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Margaret Gaida, “Michael” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/437.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract and categorization, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
  • Margaret Gaida: disambiguation from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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