Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia

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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.

Introduction

Abbreviations


Abba Mina

Abd al-Karim as-Sam'ani

Abu Nasr Mutahhar al-Maqdisi

Abu-l-Faraj Qudama

Abu-l-Fida'

Abu Hamid al-Andalusi

Abu Salih the Armenian

Abu Shama

Acta Mercuri / Gadla Marqorewos

Ad-Dimishqi

Adh-Dhahabi

Ahmad al-Kufi

al-Bakri

al-Bakuwi

al-Baladhuri

al-Balawi

al-Battani

al-Biruni

al-Edfuwi

al-Khuwarezmi*

al-Farghani

al-Fazari*

al-Hamdani

al-Harawi

al-Harrani

al-Idrisi

al-Idrisi Abridged

al-Isfahani

al-Istakhri

al-Jahiz

al-Kharaqi

al-Makin

al-Marrakushi

al-Marwazi

al-Miskawaih

al-Mas'udi

al-Mufaddal

al-Muhallabi

al-Muqaddasi

al-Qadi al-Fadil

al-Qalqashandi

al-Qazwini

al-'Umari

al-Waqidi*

al-Ya'qubi

al-Zuhri

an-Nadim

An-Nuwayri

Anonymous Suwar al-Aqalim

Arab Nicene Canons

Assaph Hebraeus

as-Sayrafi

as-Suyuti

ash-Shirazi

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

Ecclesiastical History of Africa

Eldad Ha-Dani

Ellath Kul-'Ellan

Eutychius of Alexandria

Gadla Ewostatewos Acta S.Eustathii

"Haismavourk" The Armenian Synaxary of Ter Israel

Hudud al-'Alam

Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam

Ibn Abd as-Salam al-Manufi

Ibn Abd az-Zahir

Ibn al-Athir

Ibn al-Faqih

Ibn al-Furat

Ibn al-Ji'ani

Ibn al-Khordadhbeh

Ibn ash-Shatir

Ibn Batuta

Ibn Butlan

Ibn Duqmaq

Ibn Hazm

Ibn Hawqal

Ibn Iyas

Ibn Jubayr

Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khallikan

Ibn Muyassar

Ibn Qalanisi

Ibn Qutaba ad-Dinawari

Ibn Ridwan

Ibn Roste

Ibn Sa'id

Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi

Ibn Wasil

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

Leo Africanus

Maqrizi

1. al-Khitat

2. as-Suluk

3. al-Bayan

4. al-Muqaffa

5. adh dhahab al-masbuk

Mahbub ibn Qustantin/Agapius

Malalas*

Michael the Syrian

Moses Bar Kepha

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Nasir-i Khusraw

Rukn ad-Din Baybars ad-Dawadari

Safi ad-Din al-Baghdadi

Severus (Sawirus)

Skariphos

Siraj ad-Din... al-Wardi

Suhrab (Ibn Serapion)

Synaxarium Arabo-Jacobiticum

Synaxarium Aethiopicum

Tabaqat Dayfallah

The Constantinople Synaxary

The Fung Chronicle

Thronos Alexandrinos

Usama Ibn Munqidh

Yahya al-Intaki

Yaqut ar-Rumi

Yusuf al-Kindi

Yusuf the Egyptian

Zayn ad-Din...al-Wardi