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23 October 2014
- 19:2719:27, 23 October 2014 diff hist +1,794 N Kitab al-Istibsar Created 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 Shah Created 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 Qalanisi Created 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-Qasim No edit summary
- 19:1919:19, 23 October 2014 diff hist +4,541 N Abu-l-Qasim Created 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 Nubia No edit summary
15 October 2014
- 16:0016:00, 15 October 2014 diff hist +29,386 N Abu Salih the Armenian Created page with "ABU SALIH (SULH) THE ARMENIAN (before 1200 A.D.) ''Nothing is known about him but his name. Abu Salih made use of valuable sources (Archives of Coptic Patriarchate?). '' ''G..."
- 15:4915:49, 15 October 2014 diff hist +28 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
1 October 2014
- 19:5319:53, 1 October 2014 diff hist +437 N Az-Zamakhshari Created 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-Marrakushi Created 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-Kharaqi Created 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-Isfahani Created 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 Abridged Created 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-Hawari 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 ..."
- 19:4419:44, 1 October 2014 diff hist +1,274 N Abu Hamid al-Andalusi Created 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'ani Created 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 Nubia No edit summary
24 September 2014
- 22:2322:23, 24 September 2014 diff hist +9,069 N Synaxarium Arabo-Jacobiticum Created page with " SYNAXARIUM ARABO-JACOBITICUM (13th-14th century) ''An Arabic translation of an earlier Coptic redaction. Latest date mentioned:..."
- 22:2122:21, 24 September 2014 diff hist +1,827 N Synaxarium Aethiopicum Created page with " SYNAXARIUM AETHIOPICUM (14th century) ''An Ethiopic version of Synaxarium Arabo—Jacobiticum, with local additions. Ed. and French transl.: I. Guidi-S. Grébaut-G...."
- 22:1922:19, 24 September 2014 diff hist +62 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
23 September 2014
- 19:1819:18, 23 September 2014 diff hist +571 N Ibn Ridwan Created page with "IBN RIDWAN (about 1050 A.D.) ''Abū-l-Hasan Alī Ibn Riḍwān. An Egyptian physician who wrote a treatise on Medicine. Daf’ madārr al-abdān bi-ard Miṣr MS.: Cairo, Dar..."
- 19:1719:17, 23 September 2014 diff hist +1,120 N Ibn Hazm Created page with "IBN HAZM (born about 994 A.D. - d. 1063 A.D. in Spain) ''Al-imām al-Ḥāfiẓ Alī Muh. Alī b. Aḥmad b. Sa'īd Ibn Ḥazm. An Arab-Spanish philosopher, jurist, philologi..."
- 19:1619:16, 23 September 2014 diff hist +30 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
- 18:2218:22, 23 September 2014 diff hist +650 N Coptic Documents of the 10th-12th Century Created page with "COPTIC DOCUMENTS OF THE 10th-12th CENTURIES ''We give some geographical names recorded in three Coptic documents: a papyrus, an ostrakon and a graffito. T.: MC fol. 823 r C:1..."
- 18:2118:21, 23 September 2014 diff hist 0 Ellath Kul-'Ellan No edit summary
- 18:2018:20, 23 September 2014 diff hist +953 N Ellath Kul-'Ellan Created page with "ELLATH KUL-'ELLAN (“The Cause of All Causes") End of 11th cent. A.D. ''Writer of an anonymous Syrian, encyclopedical treatise. Ed.: K. Kayser, Das Buch von der Erkenntnis ..."
- 18:1818:18, 23 September 2014 diff hist +70 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
- 15:0115:01, 23 September 2014 diff hist +846 N Avicenna Created page with "AVICENNA (IBN SINA) (d. 1037 A.D.) ''Abū Alī al-Husayn b. 'Abdalla Ibn sīna. One of the greatest Arabic philosophers and scientists. Brockelmann 1, 452; EI (s.v. Ibn Sīn..."
- 15:0015:00, 23 September 2014 diff hist +14 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
- 14:4414:44, 23 September 2014 diff hist −4 Al-Miskawaih No edit summary
- 14:4214:42, 23 September 2014 diff hist +4,698 N Al-Miskawaih Created page with "Al-Miskawaih (d. 1030 A.D.) ''Ahmad M.uḥ b. Ya'qūb b. 'Alī al-Ustādh Ibn al-Miskawaih. A Persian by birth, who lived at the Court of Baghdad. He continued Tabari. El (s..."
- 14:4014:40, 23 September 2014 diff hist +18 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
- 13:4613:46, 23 September 2014 diff hist −14 Ibn Yunus No edit summary
- 13:4613:46, 23 September 2014 diff hist +1,362 N Ibn Yunus Created page with "Ibn Yūnus (d. 1009 A.D.) Abū-l-Hasan, 'Alī b. Sa'īd A. Rahman b. Yūnus as-Sadafī. One of the greatest Arab astronomers who lived at the court of Caliph al-Hākim. EI (..."
- 13:4013:40, 23 September 2014 diff hist +15 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
- 12:4712:47, 23 September 2014 diff hist +1,511 N Assaph Hebraeus Created page with "ASSAPH HEBRAEUS (9th-llth cent. A.D.) ''Tractatus de Septem Planetis secundum Assaph Hebraeum. At the end of the Treatise there is the following passage, in Latin. T.: MC 820..."
- 12:4612:46, 23 September 2014 diff hist +21 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
- 12:4512:45, 23 September 2014 diff hist +1,653 N "Haismavourk" The Armenian Synaxary of Ter Israel Created page with ""HAISMAVOURK" THE ARMENIAN SYNAXARY OF TER ISRAEL (13th cent. A.D.) 7 Araz (14 January) Feast of the Saint Holy Monks of Sinai and of the Mountain of Raithou (Ruth). T. : P..."
- 12:4312:43, 23 September 2014 diff hist +55 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
22 September 2014
- 19:5119:51, 22 September 2014 diff hist +31 Michael the Syrian No edit summary
- 19:5119:51, 22 September 2014 diff hist +31 Benjamin of Tudela No edit summary
- 19:5019:50, 22 September 2014 diff hist +31 Al-Qadi al-Fadil No edit summary
- 19:4919:49, 22 September 2014 diff hist +31 Abu Shama No edit summary
- 17:5017:50, 22 September 2014 diff hist −2 Michael the Syrian No edit summary
- 17:4217:42, 22 September 2014 diff hist +18,511 N Michael the Syrian Created page with "Michael the Syrian (d. 1199 A.D.) ''Michael the Great, born in Melitene, Jacobite Pat¬riarch of Antioch 1166 — 1199 A.D. Wrote, besides other works, a Chronicle in Syriac,..."
- 17:3917:39, 22 September 2014 diff hist +3,053 N Benjamin of Tudela Created page with "Benjamin of Tudela (about 1173 A.D.) ''Famous Jewish traveller from Spain who from 1160-1173 A.D. visited Jewish communities throughout the world. Messā’ ōt Shel Rabbi Be..."
- 17:3717:37, 22 September 2014 diff hist +2,243 N Al-Qadi al-Fadil Created page with "Al-Qādī Al-Faḍil (d. 1199 A.D.) ''Abū Alī A. Rahmān b. al-Qādī al-Faḍil al-Ashraf al- Asqalānī al-Baysānī. Saladin's famous secretary and influential vizier. ..."
- 17:3517:35, 22 September 2014 diff hist +1 Abu Shama No edit summary
- 17:3217:32, 22 September 2014 diff hist +13,650 N Abu Shama Created page with "Abu Shama (1202-1267 A.D.) ''Shihāb ad-dīn Abū Shāma A. Rahmān b. Ismā’īl al-Maqdisī ad-Dimishqī ash-Shāfi’ī. An historian born in Jerusalem, who lived mostly ..."
- 17:3017:30, 22 September 2014 diff hist +85 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary