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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..."