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Dhū l-kāriʿ

URI https://medievalmideast.org/practice/611

A royal resource of the Umayyad dynasty in Damascus, seized by Marwan II in 744 CE (whose meaning is unclear)

Names

  • Syriac: ܕܘܠܟܐܪܥ = DWLKʾRʿ 1

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian1 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 467 [Syriac].
    • doulbâra: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 505 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Dhū l-kāriʿ” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/611.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; 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
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