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The Christian Nubian dead were always buried in cemeteries, located wherever possible adj ...ad superstructures of more than a dozen types, all dating from the Classic Christian period (Adams 2003, 43-8). The most common superstructure type was a small ...

...es plus one or more churches. Because of the limited agrarian resources of Nubia, they were seldom anywhere near as large as the peasant villages of Egypt. ...d. The structures show a distinctly marked evolutionary development. Early Christian houses, like those of the preceding Ballana period, were generally small an ...

...rebuilt in the 10th. Illustrated pottery shows Classic, Late, and Terminal Christian wares. The church stands in the middle of a much larger walled compound whi ...

...how respect by your mercy towards those other Christians in the Kingdom of Nubia and of other nations who are beyond the lands of the Sultan who are black a ...cause such great help will be brought to them by the black Christians from Nubia and from other countries above Egypt: they will descend upon their enemies ...

The term "Nubia" is of relatively recent coinage, and refers to a region that never called The term Nubia today is used differently in different contexts. As a cultural and geograph ...

...eaty, called the ''Baqt'', was negotiated, which guaranteed the freedom of Nubia from Arab invasion, and from the imposition of Islam, in return for an annu ...of a non-Muslim nation. It was under this protective umbrella that Nubia's Christian civilization grew and flourished. There are several recorded versions of th ...

Second India. Its principal king is a Christian. Of the The capital of the principal Christian king is in the interior ...

published several articles on Medieval inscriptions from Nubia – the latest concerns the Christian inscriptions from Sai, one of the largest ...

...le of Nubia from then until the end of the Middle Ages adhered to a single Christian doctrine. ...ve been identified archaeologically, but it is evident that monasticism in Nubia played nothing like the important role that it did in Egypt. It seems evide ...

The “Corpus of Wall Paintings from Christian Nubia” is part of the major project “Corpus of the and iconographic particularities of the Christian wall paintings from the Medieval churches in ...

Nubia is quintessentially the land of the famous Nile Cataracts (First, Second, T ...peasant population of Egypt. Except in its most southerly part, therefore, Nubia may be described as a country 1000 km long and 1 km wide. ...

[[File:c0640-ruined-christian-church.jpg|right|250px]] [[Category:Lower Nubia]] ...

...with which they are at war. Ma’atūm, also called Nubia (''Nūbyāʾ''), is a Christian kingdom and the inhabitants are called Nubians (''Nubim''). The Jews genera ...Africa, Arabia as well as from countries towards India, Savila, Abyssinia, Nubia, Yemen, Mesopotamia and Syria, besides Greeks and Turks. (ibid., p. 123). ...

...ed the Nubians, who go everyday naked, they do not love God, they are very Christian, they are rich in gold, they exchange in commerce, they posses three... [la ''The ports to the towns of Nubia are similar to the Caspian ports. They are places for troops to guard the N ...

...said to have founded Sidon in Phenicia</ref> son of the king of Egypt and Nubia. (Zotenberg, La Chronique, p. 253). ...y [the inhabitants of Ashmunein] sent a message to Elkad, son of Mūjāb, in Nubia, and invited him to come to them, because they wanted to make him their kin ...

...are Christian, and are black by the burning of the sun. Between [Egypt and Nubia] is a journey of twelve days, all desert and sand ...

...African slave who fled from Tombuctu to the Mediterranean coast, became a Christian and took the name of John Leo. He wrote, or more probably dictated, a book ...they undertake by an oath that they will not use it within the country of Nubia. The buyer pays to the sovereign a royalty equalling the price of the poiso ...

...ии, включая онлайн-версию [[Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia|''Восточных источников, касающихся Нубии (на анг.)'']], собранных Джованни ...ория (на анг.)''] и [http://www.amazon.com/Chronological-Systems-Christian-Nubia-SUPPLEMENTS/dp/839259195X ''Системы летоисчисления в средневековой Нубии (н ...

Ottomans that was built on the ruins of their Christian the known Christian grave stelae ...

...ophysite confession, as pointed out by Monneret de Villard, ''Storia della Nubia Cristiana'', Roma, 1938, p. 66.</ref> ...

...ine. ... Three among them (lie in) the desolate lands of the South, beyond Nubia, close to Jabal al-Qamar , from which ten rivers rise. (Minorsky, p. 35). ...Nile. From the frontier of ''Uswān'' and the beginning of the frontier of Nubia it runs due north and enters Upper Egypt. The other mountain is on the west ...

...ine. ... Three among them [lie in] the desolate lands of the South, beyond Nubia, close to Jabāl al-Qamar , from which ten rivers rise. (Minorsky, p. 35). ...Nile. From the frontier of ''Uswān'' and the beginning of the frontier of Nubia it runs due north and enters Upper Egypt. The other mountain is on the west ...

[King Cyriacus of Nubia] ...vernor, sent for the Patriarch asking him to write a letter to the king of Nubia to turn him away from his invasion. He actually wrote to him, telling him t ...

...ey.</ref> at Tirmiz. The Nile flows first through Nubia, then into Egypt. Nubia is a mountainous country; when the river enters the plain it is already in ...either Nubians (''nūb'') or Greeks (''rūm''). I saw wheat and dhurra from Nubia, both of black colour. ...

...ey.</ref> at Tirmiz. The Nile flows first through Nubia, then into Egypt. Nubia is a mountainous country; when the river enters the plain it is already in ...either Nubians (''nūb'') or Greeks (''rūm''). I saw wheat and dhurra from Nubia, both of black colour. ...

...ep around me, in my army, one hundred thousand Muslim horsemen; as for the Christian horsemen, they are even more numerous, so that it is impossible to count th ...es, the Sword of the Christians and Support of the states which follow the Christian faith, the Friend (''ṣadīq'') of all Kings and Sultans, the Sultan of the A ...

''Yaqūt b. Abdalla ar-Rūmī. Traveller and geographer of Greek Christian origin.'' ''Bilāq'' ... is a place at the extreme end of the Ṣa'īd, where Nubia begins; it is the frontier between the two territories, (t. 1, p. 710). ...

[[Toponyms and Ethnonyms for Nubia]] – catalogue number in the Dated Texts from Nubia database.<br> ...

...d ''Egziā’behēr'' (God). From this passage, one might guess that they were Christian (Conti Rossini, ''Storia d’Etiopia'', p. 274.</ref> and the devil by the n ...re careful to obey him and pay tribute. The Najāshī professes the Jacobite Christian religion (''dīn an-nāsraniyya al-ya’qūbiyya''). ...

...d ''Egziā’behēr'' (God). From this passage, one might guess that they were Christian (Conti Rossini, ''Storia d’Etiopia'', p. 274.).</ref> and the devil by the ...re careful to obey him and pay tribute. The Najāshī professes the Jacobite Christian religion (''dīn an-nāsraniyya al-ya’qūbiyya''). ...

chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, was a King of Nubia, and that when he came from Nubia and had drawn nigh to ...

...s adaptation of hagiographical traditions widespread in other areas of the Christian world. ...g.<ref>Frend 1979 and Walter 2003</ref> Nonetheless, this text shows that Nubia inherited the image of a mounted Saint Sisinios - like that known from Bawi ...

...o the Sea of the Ḥabasha '''[p. 508]''' on the east, the countries of the Christian and pagan Ḥabasha on the south, then the barren deserts on the west side an ...y in their rear, which might become their refuge. That is why they went to Nubia. When they realized it was not a country suitable for such people as they w ...

[Under the reign of Emperor Constantine]. The Christian religion continued to spread and prevail over the others, until most of the [The Evangelisation of Nubia]<ref>Barhebraeus repeats almost literally the account of John of Ephesus.</ ...

...gh far from being impartial, is of paramount importance for the history of Nubia.<ref>It is scarcely possible to understand the history of the conversion of ...s received with great rejoicing. He instructed all the people again in the Christian religion, preaching and enlightening them. He also built a church and estab ...

...onquer it, to make it their refuge if attacked. But they [Ayyubids] found [Nubia] inhospitable to people '''[p. 572]''' like themselves, so they changed [th Both the kings and the people of Nubia were in the olden days Christians. When 'Amrū b. al-'Āṣ conquered Egypt, he ...

...perhaps it can be comparatively to Nubia or other territories bordering on Nubia.</ref> and is nearer to the western side (''maghrib''). All goods that are ...ained the Patriarch of the Jacobites having jurisdiction over the kings of Nubia and of Ḥabasha. (ibid. II, p. 473). ...

...Sūdān'' belong the Kanāw, the Sūra, the Hujāma and Qaljūr, all of whom are Christian Ḥubūsh. They are divided into six groups, via. the Amhara, to whom belonged .../ref> The Arabs call them "pupil-smiters", because, during the invasion of Nubia led by ‘Abdalla b. Abī Sarḥ, in the year 31 H. [652 A.D.] a part of the Ara ...

...s text, and has no re-edition himself. Thus, 1913, The Nubian Texts of the Christian Period, Berlin. '''This is presumably out of copyright.''' ...Studies: Past, Present and Future" in W. V. Davies, ed., Egypt and Africa: Nubia from Prehistory to Islam, pp. 286-293. Unknown P.QI inv. number, 1963/1964 ...

[The Escape of the Sons of Marwān through Nubia [Year 132 H./749 A.D.]] ...Abū Rakwa’s rise and fall. We translate only the episode of his arrest in Nubia. Abū Rakwa left Spain at the age of twenty after he had been involved in a ...

A priest from the people of al-Hind<ref>Not todays’ India, but most probably Nubia [or Ethiopia] which in the Upper Middle Age was vaguely called India.</ref> ...e robbed those who were Journeying to Miṣr, or Upper Egypt or Abyssinia or Nubia, of all their goods so that travel was interrupted on the roads and all the ...

– catalogue number in the Dated Texts from Nubia database. ...ed for the purposes of the PhD thesis ''Chronological Systems of Christian Nubia'' by the author.<br><br> ...

...office (''diwān'') told me that he saw two letters which arrived from the Christian king of Ethopia saying that [the following words almost illegible are tenta '''[p. 470]''' [The Story of Invasion (''ghazwa'') of Nubia] ...

...tremere: ''Kirki''), son of Zakaria, son of John, was at that time King of Nubia. To fight al-Omari he appointed Nyūtī, son of ''Qoshma'' (Cosmas), a brave ...try for 7 years before leaving [Nubia] finally.<ref>Al-Omari's activity in Nubia ended before 255 H./868 A.D. (cf. above a ''Khitat'', ch. XXXII, par. 6). B ...

...tremère: ''Kirki''), son of Zakaria, son of John, was at that time King of Nubia. To fight al-Omarī he appointed Nyūtī, son of ''Qoshma'' (Cosmas), a brave ...try for 7 years before leaving [Nubia] finally.<ref>Al-Omarī's activity in Nubia ended before 255 H./868 A.D. [cf. above a ''Khiṭaṭ'', ch. XXXII, par. 6]. B ...

[Tūrānshāh's Campaign in Nubia [568 H./1172 A.D.]] In this year the black slaves (''ʿabīd'') advanced out of Nubia to lay siege to the town of Aswān, where is the residence of Kanz ed-Dawla. ...

[Tūrānshāh's Campaign in Nubia (568 H./1172 A.D.)] In this year the black slaves (''ʿabīd'') advanced out of Nubia to lay siege to the town of Aswan, where is the residence of Kanz ed-Dawla. ...

...655 A.D.) is the reading most likely to be the correct one.</ref>, king of Nubia, to 'Abdalla b. Sa'd b. Abī Sarḥ and that [on that occasion king Zakarīyā] ...overnor of all the districts of Egypt, north and south, from Alexandria to Nubia, and over al-Ḥijāz. (Cairo III, p. 153). ...

[Events in the Christian Era] ...sion of the Nubians<ref>Michael wrote his own account of the conversion of Nubia and an abridged account of John of Ephesus's History on two columns, side b ...

Arrives in Nubia's distant realm, and here So spake the sightless king of Nubia's reign, ...

==A Guide to the Texts of Medieval Nubia== ...nt proposes a set of citation standards for textual evidence from medieval Nubia. &nbsp;It is intended to supersede the ad hoc arrangements used in earlier ...

...tandards for citation proposed in ''A [[Guide to the Texts]] from Medieval Nubia''. Publications not yet in that checklist are indicated by reference to th ...sochlou<ref>Misunderstood by its editor? Cf. en topôi ochloê in Christian Nubia’s Greek funerary inscriptions?</ref> ...

...iscussed the identification of some of Idrīsī’s toponyms in ''Storia della Nubia Christiana'', pp. 199-206 and Map IV. As Idrīsī often mentioned water point ...and, ten days, and less than that by river downstream. The total length of Nubia, along the Nile, is a little more than two months. The people of ''ʿAlwah'' ...

...ements on the stronomical position of Dongola, distances between places in Nubia, the desert east and west of the Nile etc. have been omitted. Of the geogra ...continues as far as Nubia; then it turns [eastwards] along the borders of Nubia and those of Aswān, touches on the territory of the Beja which lies south o ...