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[[Abd al-Karim as-Sam'ani]]
[[Abd al-Karim as-Sam'ani]]
[[Abu Nasr Mutahhar al-Maqdisi]]
[[Abu-l-Faraj Qudama]]


[[Abu-l-Qasim]]
[[Abu-l-Qasim]]
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[[al-Baladhuri]]
[[al-Baladhuri]]
[[al-Balawi]]


[[al-Battani]]
[[al-Battani]]
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[[al-Isfahani]]
[[al-Isfahani]]
[[al-Istakhri]]


[[al-Kharaqi]]
[[al-Kharaqi]]


[[al-Makin]]
[[al-Makin]]
[[al-Mamdani]]


[[al-Marrakushi]]
[[al-Marrakushi]]
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[[al-Miskawaih]]
[[al-Miskawaih]]
[[al-Mas'udi]]
[[al-Muhallabi]]
[[al-Muqaddasi]]


[[al-Qadi al-Fadil]]
[[al-Qadi al-Fadil]]
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[[al-Zuhri]]
[[al-Zuhri]]
[[an-Nadim]]


[[Arab Nicene Canons]]
[[Arab Nicene Canons]]
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[[Benjamin of Tudela]]
[[Benjamin of Tudela]]
[[Buzurg b. Sahriyar]]


[[Coptic Documents of the 10th-12th Century]]
[[Coptic Documents of the 10th-12th Century]]
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[[Ellath Kul-'Ellan]]
[[Ellath Kul-'Ellan]]
[[Eutychius of Alexandria]]


[["Haismavourk" The Armenian Synaxary of Ter Israel]]
[["Haismavourk" The Armenian Synaxary of Ter Israel]]
[[Hadud al-Alam]]


[[Ibn Abd az-Zahir]]
[[Ibn Abd az-Zahir]]
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[[Ibn Yunus]]
[[Ibn Yunus]]
[[Ibn Zulaq]]
[[Ishaq ibn al-Husain]]


[[Jacob of Edessa]]
[[Jacob of Edessa]]
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[[Kitab Surat al-Ard]]
[[Kitab Surat al-Ard]]
[[Mahbub ibn Qustantin/Agapius]]


[[Malalas]]*
[[Malalas]]*
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[[Siraj ad-Din... al-Wardi]]
[[Siraj ad-Din... al-Wardi]]
[[Suhrab (Ibn Serapion)]]


[[Synaxarium Arabo-Jacobiticum]]
[[Synaxarium Arabo-Jacobiticum]]


[[Synaxarium Aethiopicum]]
[[Synaxarium Aethiopicum]]
[[The Constantinople Synaxary]]


[[Usama Ibn Munqidh]]
[[Usama Ibn Munqidh]]
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[[Yaqut ar-Rumi]]
[[Yaqut ar-Rumi]]
[[Yusuf al-Kindi]]


[[Category:Literary Sources]]
[[Category:Literary Sources]]

Revision as of 18:20, 21 December 2014

Father Giovanni Vantini FSCJ's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia, published as a field-manual for archaeologists of medieval Nubia, has long been a standard reference guide in Nubian studies. With the permission of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Missionari Comboniani del Cuore di Gesu, we present excerpts from this monumental collection. Each author included in Vantini's source-book will be added to the list below as it becomes available for this source reader. Scholars of Nubian studies are aware of the acute need to revisit the editions and translations of the literary sources in Vantini's collection, and are invited to use the Medieval Nubia wiki as a forum for discussing these issues. Note that corrigenda and addenda to these texts will be gradually provided as more of them becomes available online. The entries already including bibliographic updates and remarks are marked with an asterisk.

Abba Mina

Abd al-Hakam

Abd al-Karim as-Sam'ani

Abu Nasr Mutahhar al-Maqdisi

Abu-l-Faraj Qudama

Abu-l-Qasim

Abu Hamid al-Andalusi

Abu Salih the Armenian

Abu Shama

Acta Mercuri / Gadla Marqorewos

Ahmad al-Kufi

al-Bakri

al-Baladhuri

al-Balawi

al-Battani

al-Biruni

al-Khuwarezmi*

al-Farghani

al-Fazari*

al-Harawi

al-Idrisi

al-Idrisi Abridged

al-Isfahani

al-Istakhri

al-Kharaqi

al-Makin

al-Mamdani

al-Marrakushi

al-Marwazi

al-Miskawaih

al-Mas'udi

al-Muhallabi

al-Muqaddasi

al-Qadi al-Fadil

al-Qazwini

al-Waqidi*

al-Ya'Qubi

al-Zuhri

an-Nadim

Arab Nicene Canons

Assaph Hebraeus

as-Sayrafi

as-Suyuti

at-Tabari

at-Taghribirdi

Avicenna

az-Zamakhshari

Barhebraeus

Benjamin of Tudela

Buzurg b. Sahriyar

Coptic Documents of the 10th-12th Century

Coptic Scalae 12th-14th Century

Cosmas Indicopleustes*

David of Beth Rabban

David Reubeni

Eldad Ha-Dani

Ellath Kul-'Ellan

Eutychius of Alexandria

"Haismavourk" The Armenian Synaxary of Ter Israel

Hadud al-Alam

Ibn Abd az-Zahir

Ibn al-Athir

Ibn al-Faqih

Ibn al-Khordadhbeh

Ibn Butlan

Ibn Hazm

Ibn Jubayr

Ibn Khallikan

Ibn Muyassar

Ibn Qalanisi

Ibn Qutaba ad-Dinawari

Ibn Ridwan

Ibn Roste

Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi

Ibn Wasif Shah

Ibn Yunus

Ibn Zulaq

Ishaq ibn al-Husain

Jacob of Edessa

John of Biclar*

John of Ephesus

John of Nikiou

John the Deacon

Kitab al-Istibsar

Kitab Surat al-Ard

Mahbub ibn Qustantin/Agapius

Malalas*

Michael the Syrian

Moses Bar Kepha

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Nasir-l-Khuaraw

Severus (Sawirus)

Skariphos

Siraj ad-Din... al-Wardi

Suhrab (Ibn Serapion)

Synaxarium Arabo-Jacobiticum

Synaxarium Aethiopicum

The Constantinople Synaxary

Usama Ibn Munqidh

Yahya al-Intaki

Yaqut ar-Rumi

Yusuf al-Kindi