User contributions for Adam Simmons

23 November 2014

• 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..."