Egypt
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The northeastern corner of Africa
where the Nile
meets the Mediterranean
Sea.
Place Type
region
Descriptions
“فان قلنا الغرب تبع ذلك مصر والشام” 10
Attestations
See Also
Works Cited
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- 1 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, pp: 13, 40, 51, 63, 65, 66, 342.
- 2 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, pp: 1, 11, 29, 40-41, 43, 48, 59, 71, 88-89, 92, 100, 103-106, 109, 112, 114, 127, 144-145, 147, 151-152, 156, 183, 185, 188, 205, 210, 236, 252, 262, 289, 299, 306-307, 317, 321, 322, 325, 331, 332, 334, 343, 346, 358, 363, 367, 368, 370, 386-387, 391, 396, 407, 408, 418, 419, 424, 445, 450.
- 3 ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, pp: 536.
- 4 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, pp: 504.
- 5 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, pp: 569.
- 6 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity, entry: Egypt.
- 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol: V, pp: 160.
- 8 Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Yaʿqūbī, Kitāb al-buldān, pp: 236.
- 9 Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah, Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa, pp: 60.
- 10 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 7.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Egypt.” 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/715.About this Entry
Entry Title: Egypt
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- Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
- Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
- Thomas A. Carlson and Tobias Scheunchen, entry contributors, “Egypt”
Additional Credit:
- 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
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Yaʿqūbī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Rustah data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
- al-Yaʿqūbī data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
- Ibn Rustah data correction and integration by Thomas A. Carlson
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