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21 December 2014

  • 19:0619:06, 21 December 2014 diff hist +31,795‎ N Al-Mas'udi ‎ Created page with "ABU L.-H. ‘A. Β. AL-HUS. B. ‘A. AL-MASUDI (d. 956 A.D.) ''Born in Baghdad, travelled in the Near and Far East, died in Egypt. Brockelmann 1, 143-145; Sezgin 332-336; EI..."
  • 18:5418:54, 21 December 2014 diff hist +3,773‎ N Yusuf al-Kindi ‎ Created page with "YUSUF AL-KINDI (d. 971 A.D.) ''Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Ya'qūb Abū 'Umar al-Kindī. An Egyptian historian. Brockelmann S 1, 229 f., Sezgin 1, 358; EI (s.v.) K. ūmara' Mi..."
  • 18:5118:51, 21 December 2014 diff hist +1,883‎ N The Constantinople Synaxary ‎ Created page with "THE CONSTANTINOPLE SYNAXARY (10th cent. A.D.) The following story about the Martyrs of Rhaitou (Tor Sina), is translated from Acta Sanctorum, Jan. 14, vol. I, pp. 966-967, w..."
  • 18:5018:50, 21 December 2014 diff hist +1,162‎ N Suhrab (Ibn Serapion) ‎ Created page with "SUHRAB (IBN SERAPION) (before 945 A.D.) ''Otherwise unknown Persian-Armenian writer from Baghdad. K. 'ajā'ib al-aqālīm as-sa'a (The Book of the Marvels of the Seven Clima..."
  • 18:4918:49, 21 December 2014 diff hist +3,057‎ N Mahbub ibn Qustantin/Agapius ‎ Created page with "MAHBUB IBN QUSTANTIN/AGAPIUS (before 950 A.D.) ''Melkite bishop of Manbig, author of a World Chronicle. K. al-'Unwān Ed.: Cheiko, CSCO. Scriptores arabici III 5, 1912; Vasi..."
  • 18:4718:47, 21 December 2014 diff hist +2,331‎ N Ishaq ibn al-Husain ‎ Created page with "ISHAQ IBN AL-HUSAIN (about 950 A.D.) ''Author of K. al-akmām al-marjān. Ed.: A. Codazzi, Rend.Acc.Naz. Lincei, Cl. Di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche 6,5, 1929, 373..."
  • 18:4618:46, 21 December 2014 diff hist +880‎ N Ibn Zulaq ‎ Created page with "IBN ZULAQ (before 997 A.D.) ''Abū Muh. al-Hasan b. Ibrāhīm ibn Zūlāq al-Laythī. An unknown author who wrote a pamphlet - "Fadā'il Miṣr" - closely following a book of..."
  • 18:4418:44, 21 December 2014 diff hist +6,234‎ N Hadud al-Alam ‎ Created page with "HUDUD AL-ALAM (983 A.D.) '''Ḥudūd al-ālam min al-mashriq ilā-l-maghrib' is an anonymous geographical treatise in Persian. Ed.: W. Barthold, Leningrad 1930 (facsimile). ..."
  • 18:4218:42, 21 December 2014 diff hist +5,067‎ N Eutychius of Alexandria ‎ Created page with "SA’ID IBN BITRIQ (BATRIQ) /EUTYCHIUS OF ALEXANDRIA (d. 940 A.D.) ''Born in Cairo he was at first a physician. In 933 A.D. he was elected patriarch of the Melkite Church in ..."
  • 18:3918:39, 21 December 2014 diff hist +1,536‎ N Buzurg b. Sahriyar ‎ Created page with "BUZURG B. SAHRIYAR AR RAMHURMUZI (after 953 A.D.) ''A sea captain who wrote a description of the Indian archipelago from sailors' stories. Brockelmann SI, p. 409f; EI (s.v.)..."
  • 18:3818:38, 21 December 2014 diff hist +1,648‎ N An-Nadim ‎ Created page with "AN-NADIM (d. about 998 A.D.) ''Abū-l-Faraj M.B.A. Ya’qūb b. Ishāq an-Nadīm al-Warrāq d. before 998 A.D. al-Bagdādī. Author and bookseller who wrote the most importan..."
  • 18:3718:37, 21 December 2014 diff hist +2,295‎ N Al-Muqaddasi ‎ Created page with "SHAMS-AD-DIN ABU ABDALLA AL-MAQDISI (= Al-Muqaddasi) (d. 985 A.D.) ''Shams ad-din Abū Abdalla b. Abi Bakr al-Banna al- Bashshari al-Maqdisi (or Al-Muqaddasi), a Jerusalem bo..."
  • 18:3518:35, 21 December 2014 diff hist +1,835‎ N Al-Muhallabi ‎ Created page with "AL-MUHALLABI (d. before 996 A.D.) ''An otherwise unknown, Al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad al-Muhallabī, the author of a K. al-masalik wa-l-mamalik (al-'Azīzī), of which only fragmen..."
  • 18:3318:33, 21 December 2014 diff hist +4,626‎ N Al-Mamdani ‎ Created page with "AL-MAMDANI (d. 945 A.D.) ''Abū Muh b. al-Hasan b. Ya'qūb 'al-Hāmdānī b. al- Hā'iq. An Arab scientist from Yemen who studied the history and archaeology of the ancient s..."
  • 18:3118:31, 21 December 2014 diff hist +8,328‎ N Al-Istakhri ‎ Created page with "AL-ISTAKHRI (932-950 A.D.) ''Otherwise unknown author. EI (s.v.) K. al-masālik wa-l-mamālik (two editions) Ed.: BGA I, Leiden 1873, 1927. T.: BGA A: 0'' Here we shall no..."
  • 18:2818:28, 21 December 2014 diff hist +7,617‎ N Al-Balawi ‎ Created page with "AL-BALAWI (about 950 A.D.) ''Abū Muh. Abdalla b. Maḥfūz al-Madīnī al-Balawī, an historian from Medina. Author of the most important source for Ibn Ṭūlūn, the Abbas..."
  • 18:2518:25, 21 December 2014 diff hist +6,462‎ N Abu-l-Faraj Qudama ‎ Created page with "ABU-L-FARAJ QUDAMA B. JA'FAR AL-KATIB AL-BAGHDADI (about 930 A.D.) ''Converted to Islam and became secretary in the Abbasid court. EI (s.v. Kudama); Brockelmann 1, 228. K. a..."
  • 18:2218:22, 21 December 2014 diff hist +3,309‎ N Abu Nasr Mutahhar al-Maqdisi ‎ Created page with "ABU NASR MUTAHHAR AL-MAQDISI (about 966 A.D.) ''Unknown author who wrote at Bost in Sigistan. Brockelmann S 1, 222; Sezgin 1, 337 Kitāb al-bad' wa-t-ta'rīkh Ed.: and Fre..."
  • 18:2018:20, 21 December 2014 diff hist +398‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

7 December 2014

  • 19:3019:30, 7 December 2014 diff hist +1,437‎ N Moses Bar Kepha ‎ Created page with "MOSES BAR ΚΕΡΗA (d. 903 A.D.) ''A Syrian bishop and author of a still unpublished Hexaemeron. HO 3, 194f. Baumstark-Reichert; LThK 7, 654 Stuiber T.: MC 559 r (Paris, B..."
  • 19:2819:28, 7 December 2014 diff hist +2,264‎ N Ibn Roste ‎ Created page with "IBN ROSTE (d. before 913 A.D.) ''Abū 'Alī A.b. 'Umar b. Roste (Rustah). A Persian from Isfahan, who wrote an encyclopaedic work, of which only the 7th volume, dealing with ..."
  • 19:2719:27, 7 December 2014 diff hist +7,095‎ N Ibn al-Faqih ‎ Created page with "IBN AL-FAQIH (AL-HAMADHANI) (about 902 A.D.) ''Abū Bakr A.b.M.b. Ishāq Ibn al-Faqīh Al-Hamadhānī. Author of a K. al-buldān. Brockelmann, 1, 227. His work survived in a..."
  • 19:2419:24, 7 December 2014 diff hist +13,105‎ N At-Tabari ‎ Created page with "ABU JA'FAR Μ. B. JARIR AT-TABARI (d. 923 A.D.) ''A Persian teacher of Hadīth and Fiqh at Baghdad. Author of the first Arabic world-history. Brockelmann 1, 142 f; Sezgin 1,..."
  • 19:1819:18, 7 December 2014 diff hist +1,431‎ N As-Sayrafi ‎ Created page with "AS-SAYRAFI (about 916 A.D.) ''Abū Zayd al-Haman as-Sayrāfī, author of "Silsilat at-tawārikh", the journal written by a merchant named Salayman (about 851 A.D.). Brockelm..."
  • 19:1719:17, 7 December 2014 diff hist +1,346‎ N Al-Battani ‎ Created page with "AL-BATTANI (d. 929 A.D.) ''Abū 'Alī M. b. Jābir b. Sinān al-Battānī aṣ-Ṣābī al-Ḥarrānī, an astronomer from Mesopotamia, wrote K. az-zīj (Astronomical Tables)..."
  • 19:1619:16, 7 December 2014 diff hist +1,602‎ N Ahmad al-Kufi ‎ Created page with "AHMAD AL-KUFI (d. 926 A.D.) ''Aḥmad al-A’tham al-Kūfī. An unknown author of a history of the early Caliphs written from a shiite point of view. EI (s.v.) K. al-futūh..."
  • 19:1419:14, 7 December 2014 diff hist +120‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

23 November 2014

9 November 2014

2 November 2014

  • 20:5820:58, 2 November 2014 diff hist +10,098‎ N Ibn Muyassar ‎ Created page with "IBN MUYASSAR (d. 1278 A.D.) ''Muḥammad b. Ali b. Yusuf b. Jalab Ibn Muyassar. Wrote a Chronicle (1047 - 115 7 A.D.). Ed.: H. Massé, Annales d'Egypte: Les Khalifes Fatimi..."
  • 20:5520:55, 2 November 2014 diff hist +8,937‎ N Nasir-l-Khuaraw ‎ Created page with "Nasir-I0Khuaraw (about 1050 A.D.) ''Abu Mu'īn Hamiduddin Nasir-i-Khusraw, a Persian Ismaili poet and traveller. Sefernameh (in Persian), describes the author's journeys betw..."
  • 20:5220:52, 2 November 2014 diff hist +7,099‎ N Al-Qazwini ‎ Created page with "AL-QAZWINI (d. 1274 A.D.) ''Zakariā ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Qazwīnī, an Arab geographer and historian. 'Ajā'ib al-Makhlūqāt wa-Gharā’ib al-Mawjūdāt (The Mar..."
  • 20:4920:49, 2 November 2014 diff hist +31‎ Al-Biruni ‎No edit summary
  • 20:4920:49, 2 November 2014 diff hist +6,171‎ N Al-Marwazi ‎ Created page with "AL-MARWAZI (d. after 1120 A.D.) ''Sharaf az-Zamān Tāhir al-Marwazī. A Persian physi¬cian at the Court of the Seljuk Sultan Malik-Shah. Tabā'i' al-hayyawān (The Nature o..."
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