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21 December 2014
- 19:0619:06, 21 December 2014 diff hist +31,795 N Al-Mas'udi Created 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-Kindi Created 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 Synaxary Created 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/Agapius Created 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-Husain Created 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 Zulaq Created 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-Alam Created 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 Alexandria Created 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. Sahriyar Created 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-Nadim Created 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-Muqaddasi Created 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-Muhallabi Created 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-Mamdani Created 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-Istakhri Created 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-Balawi Created 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 Qudama Created 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-Maqdisi Created 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 Nubia No edit summary
7 December 2014
- 19:3019:30, 7 December 2014 diff hist +1,437 N Moses Bar Kepha Created 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 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..."
- 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
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- 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