earthquakes

URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/458

A practice

Names

  • Hebrew: רעש = RʿSh 1
  • Persian: زلزله = zalzala 2
  • Syriac: ܪܩܝܥܐ = RQYʿʾ 3

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela1 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw2 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Earthquake: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 27, 49 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 2Earthquakes: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 7, 26 [Persian 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), 71 [Syriac].
    • tremblements de terre: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 109, 111, 122, 132, 140, 142, 158, 174, 175, 185, 243, 262, 270, 292, 295; II, 8, 11, 22, 39, 123, 142, 143, 147, 149, 154, 160, 181, 193, 238, 243, 244, 245, 262, 292, 309, 352, 359, 373, 414, 419, 456, 457, 480, 481, 490, 504, 507, 509, 510, 511, 524, 528; III, 17, 105, 120, 133, 160, 180, 183, 190, 197, 200, 207, 212, 225, 235, 242, 243, 250, 251, 252, 259, 269, 298, 315, 316, 337 [French].
    • Earthquake: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), x, 52, 60, 114 n.348, 182, 184, 324 n.899 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “earthquakes” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/458.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching, Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and matching, Syriac name collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching and Persian collection/transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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