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  • 19:0719:07, 21 December 2014 diff hist +29 N Ibn HawqalCreated page with "Category:Literary Sources"
  • 19:0719:07, 21 December 2014 diff hist +16 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning NubiaNo edit summary
  • 19:0619:06, 21 December 2014 diff hist +31,795 N Al-Mas'udiCreated 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-KindiCreated 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 SynaxaryCreated 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/AgapiusCreated 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-HusainCreated 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 ZulaqCreated 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-AlamCreated 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 AlexandriaCreated 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. SahriyarCreated 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-NadimCreated 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-MuqaddasiCreated 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-MuhallabiCreated 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-MamdaniCreated 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-IstakhriCreated 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-BalawiCreated 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 QudamaCreated 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-MaqdisiCreated 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 NubiaNo edit summary

7 December 2014

  • 19:3019:30, 7 December 2014 diff hist +1,437 N Moses Bar KephaCreated 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 RosteCreated 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-FaqihCreated 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-TabariCreated 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-SayrafiCreated 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-BattaniCreated 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-KufiCreated 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 NubiaNo edit summary

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  • 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 CenturyCreated 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. MuhCreated 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-IntakiCreated 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..."
  • 19:2719:27, 23 October 2014 diff hist +1,794 N Kitab al-IstibsarCreated page with "ANONYMOUS KITAB AL—ISTIBSAR (about 1192 A.D.) ''K. al-istibṣār fī ‘ajā’ib al-amṣār (a treatise on geography closely following Al-Bakri). MS: Paris, Bibl.Nat., ..."
  • 19:2519:25, 23 October 2014 diff hist +3,643 N Ibn Wasif ShahCreated page with "IBN WASIF SHAH (d. 1203 A.D.) ''Historian of Egypt and the Maghrib, quoted by Maqrizi. MS: Cairo, Billb.Nat. , MS hist. 2255 Ed.: (partly) 'Mus'ad, pp. 121 - 123. T.: Mus'ad ..."
  • 19:2219:22, 23 October 2014 diff hist +4,427 N Ibn QalanisiCreated page with "IBN QALANISI (1073-1160 A.D.) ''Abu Ya'li Hamza b. al-Qalānisī. A Syrian-Arab historian of the 1st Crusade, later Lord Mayor of Damascus. Dhayl Ta’rikh Dimishq Ed.: H.A. ..."
  • 19:2019:20, 23 October 2014 diff hist −4 Abu-l-QasimNo edit summary
  • 19:1919:19, 23 October 2014 diff hist +4,541 N Abu-l-QasimCreated page with "ABU—L—QASIM...IBN SA'ID AL-ANDALUSI (1029 - 1070 A.D.) ''An Arab-Spanish historian. '' ''K. Tabaqat al-umam ("The Categories of Nations"). Here the ability of different p..."
  • 19:1619:16, 23 October 2014 diff hist +180 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning NubiaNo edit summary

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  • 19:5319:53, 1 October 2014 diff hist +437 N Az-ZamakhshariCreated page with "AZ-ZAMAKHSHARI (d. 538/1143 A.D.) ''Abū-l-Qāsim Mahmud b. 'Umar az-Zainakhsharī, a geographer. K. al-Jibāl wa-l-Ankinat wa-l-Miyāh (Lexicon Geographicum) Ed.: K. Salverd..."
  • 19:5219:52, 1 October 2014 diff hist +477 N Al-MarrakushiCreated page with "AL-MARRAKUSHI (d. about 1262 A.D.) ''Abu 'Abdalla al-Hasan b. Ali b. ’Umar al-Marrākushī. Arab astronomer. EI (s.v.); GAL 1, 345 Jamī’ al-mabādi’ wa-l-ghāyāt (A C..."
  • 19:4919:49, 1 October 2014 diff hist +1,064 N Al-KharaqiCreated page with "AL-KHARAQI (d. 1138 A.D.) (before 1138 A.D.) ''Muḥammad ibn Ahmad b. 'Alī Bishr al-Kharaqī, an astronomer, born at Merw (Khurāsān), died in 533 H (= 1138 A.D.) He wrot..."
  • 19:4819:48, 1 October 2014 diff hist +772 N Al-IsfahaniCreated page with "QADI 'IMAD AD-DIN AL-ISFAHANI (about 1196 A.D.) ''The author is believed, on stylistic grounds, to be different from the famous contemporary Kātib (and not "qādī" of Salad..."
  • 19:4719:47, 1 October 2014 diff hist +1,792 N Al-Idrisi AbridgedCreated page with "AL-IDRISI ABRIDGED ("Le Petit Idrisi") (about 1192 A.D.) ''A summary of Idrisi's "Nuzhat" known under the title "Uns al-Muhaj" (The Kindness of the Cheerful). The only substa..."
  • 19:4619:46, 1 October 2014 diff hist +447 N Al-HawariCreated 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 ..."
  • 19:4419:44, 1 October 2014 diff hist +1,274 N Abu Hamid al-AndalusiCreated page with "ABU HAMID AL-ANDALUSI (Al-Gharnati) (1080 - 1169 A.D.) ''Abu Hamid A. Rahman al-Mazīnī al-Qaysi al-Andalusi. He was born at Granada, studied in Alexandria, travelled in Afr..."
  • 19:4219:42, 1 October 2014 diff hist +861 N Abd al-Karim as-Sam'aniCreated page with "ABD AL-KARIM AS-SAM'ANI (1172 A.D.) ''Dictionarist K. al-ansāb (The Book of Lineage) MS; London, Brit.Mus. MS add. 23.355 Ed.: Gibb Mem.Ser. XX, 1912 T.: MC 878 r-v A:0'..."
  • 19:4019:40, 1 October 2014 diff hist +167 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning NubiaNo edit summary

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