horse racing
URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/569
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| Event Description | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before 1354 CE | 1354-1356 | early 1180 A.H. / 1766 | 1997 | |
| before 1199 | 1195-1199? | 1598 | 2009 |
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]), 2:224 [Arabic].
- horses for racing: 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), II, 479 [English].
- 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 53 [Syriac].
- hippiques : J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 84 [French].
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “horse racing” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/569.
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- Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching, Syriac name collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
- Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
- McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle