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Qaḥṭānī

URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/441

Figure associated with the apocalypse who will arrive after the Mahdi

Names

  • Arabic: قحطاني = Qaḥṭānī 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), 67, 236, 237, 238, 245, 247, 249, 254 [Arabic].
    • Qaḥțāni: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 50, 218–19, 231, 235 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Qaḥṭānī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/441.

Additional credit information:

  • 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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