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Medina - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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A city in Arabia and the capital of the earliest caliphate

Names

  • Medina
  • المدينة2
  • يثرب2
  • Yathrib1

Place Type

settlement

Attestation

Attestation of names يثرب and المدينة in the Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa of Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah.

يثرب2 المدينة2 2
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 220, 302.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa (Leiden: Brill, 1891)., p: 58, 78.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Medina” last modified August 9, 2017, http://syriaca.org/place/2907.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Medina.”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2017. Entry published August 9, 2017. http://syriaca.org/place/2907.

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Entry Title: Medina

Additional Credit:

  • Data merging, Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz

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