Egypt

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The northeastern corner of Africa where the Nile meets the Mediterranean Sea.

Names

  • ܡܨܪܝܢ
  • ܡܶܨܪܝܢ3
  • مصر4, 7, 8, 9, 10
  • Egypt1, 2, 5, 6

Place Type

region

Descriptions

فان قلنا الغرب تبع ذلك مصر والشام10

Attestations

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

مصر4, 7, 8, 9, 10 8

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

مصر4, 7, 8, 9, 10 9

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

مصر4, 7, 8, 9, 10 7
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See Also

    Works Cited

    Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.

    • 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.

    How to Cite This Entry

    Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Egypt” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/715.

    Bibliography:

    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

    Authorial and Editorial Responsibility:

    • 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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