User contributions for Adam Simmons

7 December 2014

• 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

• 19:4919:49, 23 November 2014 diff hist +15,195‎ N Al-Ya'Qubi ‎ Created page with "AL-YA'QUBI (wrote 872-891 A.D.) ''Ahmad b. 'Alī Ya'qūb b. Ja'far b. Wahb b. al-Wādih al-'Abbāsī, from the family of the well-known Shiite Wadih. Traveller in Armenia, In..."
• 19:4019:40, 23 November 2014 diff hist +16‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary
• 16:4616:46, 23 November 2014 diff hist +1,017‎ N Kitab Surat al-Ard ‎ Created page with "KITAB SURAT AL-ARD (before 900 A.D.) ''A book of astronomical tables found in al-Battānī's work. Part of an Arabic translation (now lost) of the Geography of Ptolemy. Ed.:..."
• 16:4316:43, 23 November 2014 diff hist +4,502‎ N Ibn Qutaba ad-Dinawari ‎ Created page with "Ibn Qutaba Ad-Dinawari (about 800) ''Abū M. 'Abdalla b. Muslim b. Qutayba ad-Dināwarī, an Arabic polyhistor. Brockelmann, 1, 120-123, S 1,184-186; El. s.v. Ibn Kutayba. W..."
• 16:4116:41, 23 November 2014 diff hist +2,678‎ N Ibn al-Khordadhbeh ‎ Created page with "Ibn Al-Khordadhbeh (about 885 A.D.) '''Ubaydalla b. Alī b. Abū-l-Qāsim al-Khurdādhbeh (al- Khorradadhbeh), a Persian who was appointed director of the post in the Jibāl ..."
• 16:3916:39, 23 November 2014 diff hist +6,963‎ N Eldad Ha-Dani ‎ Created page with "Eldad Ha-Dani (about 883 A.D.) ''A Jewish traveller who sent to Spain a report on a journey he claimed to have undertaken for the purpose of discovering "the ten lost tribes"..."
• 16:3716:37, 23 November 2014 diff hist +6,268‎ N Al-Baladhuri ‎ Created page with "Al-Baladhuri (d. 892 A.D.) ''Abū-l-'Abbās Aḥmad b. Yahya b. Jabir al-Balādhurī. Historian at the Court of the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil. Brockelmann, 1, 141; Sezgin 320; E..."
• 16:3416:34, 23 November 2014 diff hist +5,674‎ N Abd al-Hakam ‎ Created page with "Abū-l-Qāsim ‘Ar. B. 'Al. B. 'Abd Al-Hakam (d. 871 A.D.) ''Son of the head of the malikitic school of Law in Egypt. K. al-Futūh Sezgin 1, 355 f; Et (Ibn Abd al-Hakam). ..."
• 16:3216:32, 23 November 2014 diff hist +131‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

9 November 2014

• 20:3720:37, 9 November 2014 diff hist +32,067‎ N Al-Idrisi ‎ Created page with "AL-IDRISI (before 1170 A.D.) ''Abū 'Abdalla Muh. b. Muh. 'Abdalla b. Idrīs al-Hammūdi al-Habanī ash-Sharīf. The most famous Arab geo¬grapher in the Middle Ages is born ..."
• 20:2120:21, 9 November 2014 diff hist +18,336‎ N Ibn Abd az-Zahir ‎ Created page with "IBN ABD AZ-ZAHIR (1223 - 1292 A.D.) ''Muhiy ad-dīn Ibn 'Abd aẓ-Ẓāhir, born and died in Cairo as the Sultans Secretary in the Cairo diwan, wrote biographies of Baybars I..."
• 20:1420:14, 9 November 2014 diff hist +13,655‎ N Al-Zuhri ‎ Created page with "Al-Zuhri (scr. 1137-1150 A.D.) ''An Arab-Spanish geographer of Granada (sor. "Anony¬mous of Almeria"). K. al-Jughrāfiya (Commentary on al-Ma'mūn's World Map; cf. al-Fazar..."
• 20:0920:09, 9 November 2014 diff hist +12,652‎ N Barhebraeus ‎ Created page with "BARHEBRAEUS (1226 - 1286 A.D.) ''Ghrighuriyus Abu-l-Faraj, from Melitene (alias Abul-farajus or Barhebraeus). A learned man of Jewish descent. Later on a bishop and Maphrian ..."
• 20:0020:00, 9 November 2014 diff hist +10,642‎ N Al-Makin ‎ Created page with "AL-MAKIN (JIRJIS IBN AL-'AMID) (1205 - 1273 A.D.) ''Jirjis Ibn al-‘Amid Abi-l-Yasir b. Abi-l-Makarim b. Abi-t-Tayyib al-Makīn (the "Steady one"), one of the greatest histo..."
• 19:5719:57, 9 November 2014 diff hist +4‎ Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi ‎No edit summary
• 19:5719:57, 9 November 2014 diff hist +28,468‎ N Ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi ‎ Created page with "IBN SA-ID AL-ANDALUSI (1206 - 1286 A.D.) A Spanish-Arab scientist, traveller and geographer. EI (s.v.); GAL 1, 336 1. ) K. Jughrafiya (The World Map divided into Seven Clima..."
• 19:4519:45, 9 November 2014 diff hist 0‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary
• 19:4519:45, 9 November 2014 diff hist +109‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

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..."
• 20:4720:47, 2 November 2014 diff hist +6,121‎ N Al-Biruni ‎ Created page with "AL-BIRUNI (d. 1048 A.D.) ''Abū-r-Rayḥān Muḥ. b. Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī. A Persian by origin; probably the most eminent Muslim scientist in the Middle Ages. Many of his 12..."
• 20:4420:44, 2 November 2014 diff hist +86‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

30 October 2014

• 00:5600:56, 30 October 2014 diff hist +24,595‎ N Ibn al-Athir ‎ Created page with "IBN AL-ATHIR (1160-1234 A.D.) ''Abu'l-Hasan Abdalla b. Abu-l-Karam Abd al-Karim Izz ad-din Ibn al-Athir. A great historian of Kurdic origin. Died in Mosul. Brockelmann 1, 3..."
• 00:4900:49, 30 October 2014 diff hist +11,477‎ N Yaqut ar-Rumi ‎ Created page with "YAQUT AR-RUMI (d. 1229 A.D.) ''Yaqut b. Abdalla ar-Rumi. Traveller and geographer of Greek Christian origin. Brockelmann, 479f, El (s.v. Yakut) Mu'jam al-buldan Ed.: F-. Wii..."
• 00:4600:46, 30 October 2014 diff hist +6,206‎ N Usama Ibn Munqidh ‎ Created page with "USAMA IBN MUNQIDH (1095-1168 A.D.,) ''Abū Muzaffar Usāma ibn Munqidh al-Kinānī, a Syrian-Arab emir and an ardent supporter of the Fatimite dynasty of Egypt, was invited t..."
• 00:4300:43, 30 October 2014 diff hist −14‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary
• 00:4300:43, 30 October 2014 diff hist +5,811‎ N Ibn Khallikan ‎ Created page with "IBN KHALLIKAN (1211 - 1281 A.D.) ''Shams ad-din Ahmad b. Muh. Ibn Khallikan; born in Arbela, died in Damascus. Chief qāḍī in Cairo and Damascus . Wafayat al-a'yan (The Bi..."
• 00:4000:40, 30 October 2014 diff hist +9,608‎ N Ibn Jubayr ‎ Created page with "IBN JUBAYR (1145 - 1217 A.D.) about 1105 A.D. ''Abū-l-Hasan Muh. b. Ahmad Ibn Jubayr al-Kinānī. An Arab poet, geographer and traveller from Valencia. He wrote the first da..."
• 00:3700:37, 30 October 2014 diff hist +4,621‎ N Ibn Butlan ‎ Created page with "IBN BUTLAN (born about 1005 A.D.) about 1050 A.D. ''Al-Mukhtār b. 'Abdūn Yuhannā Ibn al-Butlān. A physician and theologian, probably a cleric of the Nestorian Church from..."
• 00:3400:34, 30 October 2014 diff hist +4,500‎ N Al-Bakri ‎ Created page with "Al—Βakri (1028-1094 A.D.) 1067 A.D. ''Abū Udayd 'Abdalla b. Abd al-'Aziz b. Mus'ab al-Bakrī. An Arab-Spanish geographer, traveller and philologist from Cordoba. El (s.v..."
• 00:3200:32, 30 October 2014 diff hist +139‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

26 October 2014

• 20:0820:08, 26 October 2014 diff hist +2,041‎ N Nasir al-Din al-Tusi ‎ Created page with "MUHAMMAD H. MUH. NASIH AD-DIN AT-TUSI (d. 1273 A.D.) ''An Arab astronomer born at Tūs. 1) Az-zīj al-ilkhānī (Astronomical Tables for the Ilkhans) Exc.: MC (1004 r-v) T...."
• 20:0520:05, 26 October 2014 diff hist +416‎ N Al-Harawi ‎ Created page with "AL-HARAWI (d. 1215 A.D.) ''An historian. K. al-ishārāt li-ma'rifat az-ziyārāt ((A Guide¬book to Pilgrims) Brockelmann 1, 629 f., S 1, 879 MS: Berlin, Staatsbibl., MS P..."
• 20:0120:01, 26 October 2014 diff hist +5‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary
• 20:0020:00, 26 October 2014 diff hist 0‎ Muhammad B. Muh ‎No edit summary
• 19:5919:59, 26 October 2014 diff hist 0‎ Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia ‎No edit summary

23 October 2014

• 20:2720:27, 23 October 2014 diff hist +57,092‎ N Severus (Sawirus) ‎ Created page with "SEVERUS (SAWIRUS ABU-l-BASHAR IBN AL-MUQAFFA) (d. about l000 A.D.) ''Deacon and secretary to the Patriarch of Alexandria, then bishop of Ashmunein. He wrote a biographical hi..."
• 20:1220:12, 23 October 2014 diff hist +1,571‎ N Coptic Scalae 12th-14th Century ‎ Created page with "COPTIC SCALAE (12th-14th centuries) 1.) The following names of episcopal seats are mentioned in various MSS containing lists of place-names in Coptic and the Arabic equivalen..."
• 20:0720:07, 23 October 2014 diff hist +2,034‎ N Muhammad B. Muh ‎ Created page with "MUHAMMAD H. MUH. NASIH AD-DIN AT-TUSI (d. 1273 A.D.) ''An Arab astronomer born at Tūs. '' 1) Az-zīj al-ilkhānī (Astronomical Tables for the Ilkhans) Exc.: MC (1004 r-v) ..."
• 20:0520:05, 23 October 2014 diff hist +5,899‎ N Yahya al-Intaki ‎ Created page with "YAHYA AL-INTAKI (d. 1276 A.D.) ''A Melkite physician from Antioch. He continued Eutychius' Chronicle (in Arabic). Ed.: and French transl.: J. Kratchkowski - A. Vasiliev, PO 1..."