User contributions for Adam Simmons

2 November 2014

• 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..."
• 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