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1 October 2014
- 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
- 14:4214:42, 23 September 2014 diff hist +4,698 N Al-Miskawaih Created page with "Al-Miskawaih (d. 1030 A.D.) ''Ahmad M.uḥ b. Ya'qūb b. 'Alī al-Ustādh Ibn al-Miskawaih. A Persian by birth, who lived at the Court of Baghdad. He continued Tabari. El (s..."
- 14:4014:40, 23 September 2014 diff hist +18 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
- 13:4613:46, 23 September 2014 diff hist −14 Ibn Yunus No edit summary
- 13:4613:46, 23 September 2014 diff hist +1,362 N Ibn Yunus Created page with "Ibn Yūnus (d. 1009 A.D.) Abū-l-Hasan, 'Alī b. Sa'īd A. Rahman b. Yūnus as-Sadafī. One of the greatest Arab astronomers who lived at the court of Caliph al-Hākim. EI (..."
- 13:4013:40, 23 September 2014 diff hist +15 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
- 12:4712:47, 23 September 2014 diff hist +1,511 N Assaph Hebraeus Created page with "ASSAPH HEBRAEUS (9th-llth cent. A.D.) ''Tractatus de Septem Planetis secundum Assaph Hebraeum. At the end of the Treatise there is the following passage, in Latin. T.: MC 820..."
- 12:4612:46, 23 September 2014 diff hist +21 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
- 12:4512:45, 23 September 2014 diff hist +1,653 N "Haismavourk" The Armenian Synaxary of Ter Israel Created page with ""HAISMAVOURK" THE ARMENIAN SYNAXARY OF TER ISRAEL (13th cent. A.D.) 7 Araz (14 January) Feast of the Saint Holy Monks of Sinai and of the Mountain of Raithou (Ruth). T. : P..."
- 12:4312:43, 23 September 2014 diff hist +55 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary
22 September 2014
- 19:5119:51, 22 September 2014 diff hist +31 Michael the Syrian No edit summary
- 19:5119:51, 22 September 2014 diff hist +31 Benjamin of Tudela No edit summary
- 19:5019:50, 22 September 2014 diff hist +31 Al-Qadi al-Fadil No edit summary
- 19:4919:49, 22 September 2014 diff hist +31 Abu Shama No edit summary
- 17:5017:50, 22 September 2014 diff hist −2 Michael the Syrian No edit summary
- 17:4217:42, 22 September 2014 diff hist +18,511 N Michael the Syrian Created page with "Michael the Syrian (d. 1199 A.D.) ''Michael the Great, born in Melitene, Jacobite Pat¬riarch of Antioch 1166 — 1199 A.D. Wrote, besides other works, a Chronicle in Syriac,..."
- 17:3917:39, 22 September 2014 diff hist +3,053 N Benjamin of Tudela Created page with "Benjamin of Tudela (about 1173 A.D.) ''Famous Jewish traveller from Spain who from 1160-1173 A.D. visited Jewish communities throughout the world. Messā’ ōt Shel Rabbi Be..."
- 17:3717:37, 22 September 2014 diff hist +2,243 N Al-Qadi al-Fadil Created page with "Al-Qādī Al-Faḍil (d. 1199 A.D.) ''Abū Alī A. Rahmān b. al-Qādī al-Faḍil al-Ashraf al- Asqalānī al-Baysānī. Saladin's famous secretary and influential vizier. ..."
- 17:3517:35, 22 September 2014 diff hist +1 Abu Shama No edit summary
- 17:3217:32, 22 September 2014 diff hist +13,650 N Abu Shama Created page with "Abu Shama (1202-1267 A.D.) ''Shihāb ad-dīn Abū Shāma A. Rahmān b. Ismā’īl al-Maqdisī ad-Dimishqī ash-Shāfi’ī. An historian born in Jerusalem, who lived mostly ..."
- 17:3017:30, 22 September 2014 diff hist +85 Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia No edit summary