al-Nafs al-Zakiyya

URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/440

A practice

Names

  • Arabic: النفس الزكية = al-Nafs al-Zakiyya 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), 110, 199, 204, 209 [Arabic].
    • “Pure Soul”: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 94, 178n, 182, 183, 186, 191, 209n [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “al-Nafs al-Zakiyya” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/440.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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