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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..."