Yemen — ܝܡܢ

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A region in the extreme south of the Arabian Peninsula.

Names

  • ܝܡܢ
  • ܝܰܡܰܢ1
  • اليمن2, 5, 6, 7, 8
  • اليَمَن4
  • al-Yaman
  • Yaman3
  • Yemen

Place Type

region

Attestations

Attestation of name اليمن in the Kitāb al-buldān of Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī.

اليمن2, 5, 6, 7, 8 5

Attestation of name اليمن in the Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa of Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah.

اليمن2, 5, 6, 7, 8 6

Attestation of name اليَمَن in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.

اليَمَن4 4
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Works Cited

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  • 1 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, pp: 562.
  • 2 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, pp: 520.
  • 3 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, pp: 556.
  • 4 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: V, pp: 510.
  • 5 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 317.
  • 6 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 59.
  • 7 Ibn Baṭṭūta, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, pp: 48, 153, 158, 164, 169, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 263, 267, 269, 272, 273, 288, 307, 335, 412, 4363, 465, 530, 571, 573, 575, 584, 587, 588, 605, 620, 646, 670.
  • 8 Ibn Jubayr, Riḥlat Ibn Jubayr, pp: 67, 69, 71, 77, 145.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Yemen — ܝܡܢ ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/508.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Yemen — ܝܡܢ .” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/508.

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  • Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
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  • Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
  • Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
  • Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
  • Ibn Rusta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Rusta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Jubayr data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
  • Ibn Battuta data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • al-Ya`qubi data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson

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