User contributions for Adam Simmons

7 December 2014

• 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 ..."