User contributions for Adam Simmons

25 January 2015

• 15:1115:11, 25 January 2015 diff hist +6,843‎ 1. al-Khitat ‎No edit summary

19 January 2015

• 16:4716:47, 19 January 2015 diff hist +4,402‎ 2. as-Suluk ‎No edit summary
• 16:4616:46, 19 January 2015 diff hist +227‎ 3. al-Bayan ‎No edit summary
• 16:4516:45, 19 January 2015 diff hist +1,039‎ 4. al-Muqaffa ‎No edit summary
• 16:4316:43, 19 January 2015 diff hist +23‎ 5. adh dhahab al-masbuk ‎No edit summary
• 16:0416:04, 19 January 2015 diff hist +1,983‎ 1. al-Khitat ‎No edit summary

18 January 2015

• 16:0716:07, 18 January 2015 diff hist −2‎ 1. al-Khitat ‎No edit summary
• 16:0316:03, 18 January 2015 diff hist +2,262‎ 1. al-Khitat ‎No edit summary
• 15:5515:55, 18 January 2015 diff hist +2,362‎ N 1. al-Khitat ‎ Created page with "MAQRIZI 1.) From "Al-Khitaṭ" [General Geographical Information] The First Climate stretches across ... the "Nile of Egypt" as far as the country of the Ḥabasha and. the..."
• 15:5115:51, 18 January 2015 diff hist +18‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

17 January 2015

• 18:3318:33, 17 January 2015 diff hist +53,018‎ N 2. as-Suluk ‎ Created page with "MAQRIZI ''2.) From:"Kitāb as-sulūk" ("The Book of the Way to know the Dynasties of Kings")'' [Tūrānshāh’s Campaign in Nubia (568 H./1172 A.D.)] In this year the blac..."
• 18:1318:13, 17 January 2015 diff hist +17‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

13 January 2015

• 17:2717:27, 13 January 2015 diff hist +29,802‎ N 4. al-Muqaffa ‎ Created page with "MAQRIZI 4.) From: Kitāb al-Muqaffā (The Great Chronicle of Egypt) [Al-Omarī' s Life] ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān, son of 'Abd al-Hamīd, son of 'Abdalla the holy man (nāsik), s..."
• 17:1717:17, 13 January 2015 diff hist +19‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

12 January 2015

• 20:0620:06, 12 January 2015 diff hist +1‎ An-Nuwayri ‎No edit summary
• 20:0420:04, 12 January 2015 diff hist +41,863‎ N An-Nuwayri ‎ Created page with "AN-NUWAYRI (d. 1332 A.D.) ''Shibab ad-dīn Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Wahhāb an-Nuwayrī. An Egyptian who was sometime inspector of the Sultan’s army. EI (s-v.); GAL 2, 139 s Nihay..."
• 19:4319:43, 12 January 2015 diff hist +16‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary
• 14:4914:49, 12 January 2015 diff hist +31,751‎ N Ibn al-Furat ‎ Created page with "IBN AL-FURAT (1334-1405 A.D.) ''Nāṣir ad-dīn Muḥ. A. Raḥīm al-miṣrī Ibn al-Furāt, An Egyptian Historian. EI (s.v.); GAL 2, 50 Ta'rīkh ad-duwal wa-l-mulūk Ed.:..."
• 14:3514:35, 12 January 2015 diff hist +18‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

10 January 2015

• 13:2513:25, 10 January 2015 diff hist +2,178‎ At-Taghribirdi ‎No edit summary
• 13:1913:19, 10 January 2015 diff hist +29,307‎ N Al-Qalqashandi ‎ Created page with "AL-QALQASHANDI (d. 1418 A.D.) ''Shihāb ad-dīn Abū-l-‘Abbās b. Aḥmad b. 'Abdalla al- Qalqashandī al-Miṣrī b. A. Judda. An Egyptian Jurist and later a Secretary in ..."
• 13:0913:09, 10 January 2015 diff hist 0‎ Ibn Khaldun ‎No edit summary
• 13:0813:08, 10 January 2015 diff hist +25,228‎ N Ibn Khaldun ‎ Created page with "IBN KHALDUN (1332-1406 A.D.) ''‘Abd ar-Raḥmān b. Muḥ. Ibn Khaldūn Wālī ad-dīn at-Tūnisī al-Ḥadramī al-Iṣbīlī al-Mālīkī. The greatest of all Arab histor..."
• 12:5712:57, 10 January 2015 diff hist +3,927‎ N Ibn Duqmaq ‎ Created page with "IBN DUQMAQ (d. 1407 A.D.) ''Sārimuddīn Ibrāhīm b. Muḥ. al-Miṣrī. Governor of Damietta, wrote about geography and history and biographies. Brockelmann 2, 50 K. al-in..."
• 12:5412:54, 10 January 2015 diff hist +3,828‎ N Al-Bakuwi ‎ Created page with "AL-BAKUWI (d. 1413 A.D.) '' 'Abd ar-Rashīd b. Ṣālih b. Nūrī Al-Bakūwī. Other¬wise unknown author of a summary of Qazwini's 'Ajā'ib al-Buldān. Born at Bakū. Brocke..."
• 12:5212:52, 10 January 2015 diff hist +15,209‎ N Al-'Umari ‎ Created page with "AL-‘UMARI (1300-1348 A.D.) ''Abū-l-'Abbās 'Alī b. Yaḥyā Ibn Faḍlalla Shihāb ad-dīn al-'Umarī. First qādī in Cairo, then State Secretary; he died of the plague ..."
• 12:4612:46, 10 January 2015 diff hist +3,196‎ N Abbreviations ‎ Created page with "Abbreviations Al-Maktaba (t) = Muh. Mustafa Mus'ad, Al-Maktabat as-sudaniyya al-arabiyya, Publ. of q the Cairo University Branch of Khartoum 4 (Cairo 1972) Ar.Ist. = Ara..."
• 12:4412:44, 10 January 2015 diff hist +2,625‎ N 3. al-Bayan ‎ Created page with "MAQRIZI 3.) From "Al-Bayān" (A Description of the Arab tribes in Egypt) In Upper Egypt there were the Awlād Kanz. They are descended from Rabī'a b. Nizār b. Ma'ad b. 'Ad..."
• 12:4312:43, 10 January 2015 diff hist −4‎ 5. adh dhahab al-masbuk ‎No edit summary
• 12:4312:43, 10 January 2015 diff hist +519‎ N 5. adh dhahab al-masbuk ‎ Created page with "MAQRIZI 5.) From: Adh-dhahab al-masbūk ... The King of the Takrūr, Mūsā Māllī, was the first of the Takrūr kings to accomplish the pilgrima¬ge (hajj). ... It is sai..."
• 12:4112:41, 10 January 2015 diff hist +1,794‎ N Maqrizi ‎ Created page with "MAQRIZI (1364-1442 A.D.) ''Abū-l-'Abbās Aḥmad b.'Abdalla b. 'Alī b. Muḥ. al-Ḥusaynī Taqī ad-dīn al-Maqrīzī. This Egyptian Encyclopaedist and historian began his..."
• 12:3912:39, 10 January 2015 diff hist +167‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

6 January 2015

• 18:0518:05, 6 January 2015 diff hist +10,576‎ N Abu-l-Fida' ‎ Created page with "ABU-L-FIDA’ (1273-1331 A.D.) ''Abū-l-fidā' Ismā'īl b. ‘Alī b. Maḥmud b. 'Umar b. Shāhinshāh b. Ayyūb 'Imād ad-dīn al-Ayyūbī. A descendant of Saladin's famil..."
• 18:0118:01, 6 January 2015 diff hist +8,557‎ N Ad-Dimishqi ‎ Created page with "AD-DIMISHQI (d. 1327 A.D.) ''Shamsaddīn Abū 'Abdalla m. b. Abī Ṭālib aṣ-Ṣūfī ad-Dimishqī. Arab traveller and geographer. Brockelmann 2, 130, 138; EI (s.v.) Nukh..."
• 17:5817:58, 6 January 2015 diff hist −2‎ Adh-Dhahabi ‎No edit summary
• 17:5817:58, 6 January 2015 diff hist +2,190‎ N Adh-Dhahabi ‎ Created page with "ADH-DHAHABI (1274-1348 A.D.) ''Abū 'Abdalla Muḥ. b. 'Uthmān b. Qāīmaz Shams ad-dīn Adh-Dhahabī at-Turkumānī. An historian from Damascus, mostly concerned with the H..."
• 17:5517:55, 6 January 2015 diff hist +2,589‎ N Al-Edfuwi ‎ Created page with "AL-EDFUWI (1286-1347 A.D.) '' Kamāl Ja'far Abū-l-Faḍl al-Edfūwī. Wrote a kind of "Who's Who" of Upper Egypt. Aṭ-Ṭāli' as-sa'īd al-jāmi' asmā’ nujabā’ aṣ-..."
• 17:5417:54, 6 January 2015 diff hist +6,928‎ N Al-Harrani ‎ Created page with "AL-HARRANI (about 1295 A.D.) ''Najm ad-dīn Aḥmad b. Hamdān b. Sabith al- Ḥarrānī al-Hanbaīi. An Egyptian ophthalmologist and poet. Brockelmann 1, 512; 2, 130 Jamī..."
• 17:5017:50, 6 January 2015 diff hist +13,347‎ N Al-Mufaddal ‎ Created page with "AL-MUFADDAL (d. 1358 A.D.) wrote before 1341 A.D. ''A Copt who wrote a history of the Mameluke Sultans. An-Nahj as-sadīd wa-d-durr al-farīd fī mā ba'd ta'rīkh Ibn al-..."
• 17:4317:43, 6 January 2015 diff hist +1,653‎ N Ash-Shirazi ‎ Created page with "ASH-SHIRAZI (d. 1312 A.D.) ''Quṭb ad-dīn Maḥmud b. Mas'ūd b. Muslih ash-Shīrazī. A Persian astronomer. At-tuḥfat ash-shahiyya fī-l-Hay'a MS: Leiden, MS ar. Golius..."
• 17:4117:41, 6 January 2015 diff hist +898‎ N Anonymous Suwar al-Aqalim ‎ Created page with "ANONYMOUS (before 1358 A.D.) ''"Ṣuwar al-aqālīm", a geographical treatise, in Persian, written for Prince Mubarizuddin (d. 1358 A.D.). MS.: Paris, Bibl.Nat., MS Pers. 66..."
• 17:4117:41, 6 January 2015 diff hist +147‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary
• 17:3717:37, 6 January 2015 diff hist +1,002‎ N Safi ad-Din al-Baghdadi ‎ Created page with "SAFI AD-DIN AL-BAGHDADI (d. 1338 A.D.) ''Abū-l-Faḍā’il Ṣafī ad-dīn 'Abd al-Ḥaqq al-Baghdādī. Otherwise unknown author of a summary of Yaqut’s Mu’jam al-buld..."
• 17:3617:36, 6 January 2015 diff hist +1,120‎ N Rukn ad-Din Baybars ad-Dawadari ‎ Created page with "RUKN AD-DIN BAYBARS AD-DAWADARI (d. 1325 A.D.) ''Born as a slave he rose to high offices (Secretary of the Diwān) under Nāṣir b. Qalawūn. Zubdat al-fikra fī ta'rīkh al..."
• 17:3317:33, 6 January 2015 diff hist +7,942‎ N Ibn Batuta ‎ Created page with "IBN BATUTA (1304-1377 A.D.) ''Abū 'Abdalla Muḥ. b. 'Abdalla b. Ibrāhīm al-Lawātī aṭ-Ṭanjī Ibn Batūṭa. Famous Arab traveller, born in Tangier, died in Fez. He d..."
• 17:3017:30, 6 January 2015 diff hist −33‎ Ibn ash-Shatir ‎No edit summary
• 17:3017:30, 6 January 2015 diff hist +34‎ Ibn ash-Shatir ‎No edit summary
• 17:2917:29, 6 January 2015 diff hist +436‎ N Ibn ash-Shatir ‎ Created page with "IBN ASH-SHATIR (1304-1379 A.D.) '' 'Ala' ad-dīn b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥ. Ibn ash-Shātir. An astronomer from Damascus. Brockelmann 2, 126 s. K. az-Zīj (Astronomical Tables)..."
• 17:2817:28, 6 January 2015 diff hist +662‎ N Ibn al-Ji'ani ‎ Created page with "IBN AL-JI'ANI (14th century) ''Unknown author. At-tuhfat as-sunniyya bi-asmā' al-bilād al-misriyya (Cadastre of Egypt). Ed.: B. Moritz (Arab.; without date). T.: Moritz A..."
• 17:2717:27, 6 January 2015 diff hist +3,573‎ N Gadla Ewostatewos Acta S.Eustathii ‎ Created page with "GADLA EWOSTATEWOS ACTA S.EUSTATHII (14th century) ''Ma'akaba Egzī'e, or Saint Eustathe, a famous monk and a saint of the Ethiopian Church, of the 14th century, went on pilgr..."