idolatry

URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/454

A practice

Names

  • Arabic: الصنم, الأصنام = al-ṣanam, al-aṣnām 1
  • Hebrew: שקוץ = ShQWṢ 2
  • Syriac: ܛܢܦܘ̈ܬܐ = ṬNPWTʾ 3

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela2 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

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]), 3:109 [Arabic].
    • idol(s): 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), III, 622; IV, 855 [English].
  • 2Idolatry: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 28 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 5 [Syriac].
    • Idoles: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 10, 17, 24, 33, 279, 317 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “idolatry” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/454.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; matching, Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and matching, Syriac name collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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