• بن شاهنشاه بن أيوب بن شادي بن مروان), better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda (Arabic: أبو الفداء; November 1273 – 27 October 1331), was a Mamluk-era...
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    Abulfeda is a lunar impact crater located in the central highlands of the Moon. To the northeast is the crater Descartes, and to the south-southeast is...
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    Catena Abulfeda is a chain of craters on the Moon that runs between the southern rim of the crater Abulfeda and the north rim of Almanon, then continues...
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    south-southeast of Abulfeda, and to the north-northeast of the smaller crater Geber. The crater chain designated Catena Abulfeda forms a line between...
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    Al-Masudi of Baghdad (896–956 CE), Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100–1165 CE), Abulfeda (1273–1331 CE), and Al-Dimashqi (1256–1327 CE) mention the Muslim communities...
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  • Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon relates an anecdote attributed to Abulfeda that Ali, on the death of Muhammad, exclaimed, O propheta, certe penis...
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    variously Romanised as Tana, Thana, Thâṇâ, and Thame. Ibn Battuta and Abulfeda knew it as Kukin Tana; Duarte Barbosa as Tana Mayambu. Before 1996, the...
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    their time inaccurate to the local time. The 14th century Arab geographer Abulfeda predicted that circumnavigators would accumulate a one-day offset to the...
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    rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. To the southwest is the crater Abulfeda. It is named after the French philosopher, mathematician and physicist...
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  • healthcare sectors. Several travelers visited the city, most famously Abulfeda: "Al-Qatif: a town next to Al-Ahsa, of a beautiful nature, whose people...
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    Japan and Java sailed primarily from its port. The Islamic geographer Abulfeda noted, in c. 1321, that its city walls remained ruined from its conquest...
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  • 1257) May 12 – Engelbert of Admont, abbot of Admont in Styria October 27 – Abulfeda, Kurdish Syrian historian and geographer (b. 1273) November 11 – Stefan...
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    theme of Chaldia, which according to the 10th century Arab geographer Abulfeda was regarded as being largely a Lazican port. Chaldia had already shown...
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    sultan Qalawun in the 1280s.[citation needed] By the early 14th century, Abulfeda the Hamathite was describing the city's "large and strong fortress". The...
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    Al-Masudi of Baghdad (896–956 AD), Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100–1165 AD), Abulfeda (1273–1331 AD), and Al-Dimashqi (1256–1327 AD) mention the Muslim communities...
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    Ismael Abulfeda Al-Ayoubi (1273–1331). Born in Damascus, Syria. A geographer, historian and later became a governor of Hama. The crater Abulfeda on the...
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    crusades; he edited (1840), and in part translated (1848), the geography of Abulfeda. To him too is due a useful edition of the very curious records of early...
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  • ("The Finest Divisions Concerning Knowledge of the Climes") Abu al-Fida (Abulfeda, 1273–1331): Taqwīm al-Buldān ("Correct Account of the Lands") (probably)...
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    from Ibn Khaldun, but also from al–Masudi, al–Bakri, al–Idrisi, Yaqut, Abulfeda, al–Umari, and Ibn Battuta. Ge'ez literature also began covering history...
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    To the southeast of Tacitus is a long chain of craters named the Catena Abulfeda. This chain runs to the northwest from the eastern edge of the Rupes Altai...
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    Notable historians in the Mamluks ranks included Baybars al-Dewadar, and Abulfeda in the Haman contingent. The Crusaders' appeals for aid met with little...
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  • encountereded by the Bordeaux Pilgrim in 333-334 and still mentioned by Abulfeda (1273–1331) in Mamluk times - or Naveh, and was part of the Roman province...
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  • and al-Mas'udi (d. 956) and the Sunni historians al-Tabari (d. 923) and Abulfeda (d. 1331). In particular, Mu'awiya ordered his governor of Kufa, al-Mughira...
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    Jordan and which [contains] Galilee and the great plain of Esdrelon" 1321: Abulfeda, A Sketch of the Countries: "The Nahr Abi Futrus is the river that runs...
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    147 H. Yule, The Book of Ser Marco Polo, 1903, vol. I, p. 110, quoting Abulfeda ("Hormuz was devastated by the incursions of the Tartars, and its people...
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    40. Retrieved 1 January 2022. Wilken, Gesch. der Ks. vol. ii. p. 474; Abulfeda, Tab. Syr. pp. 114, 157. vii. 15 Rebecca Ananda (26 May 2015). "The History...
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    Khan Rustem Pasha Nicknames:  Mother of Norias (أم النواعير) City of Abulfeda (مدينة أبي الفداء) Hama Location in Syria Show map of Syria Hama Hama (Eastern...
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    the ruined city of Athur, or Akur, occurs under the head of "Selamiyah." Abulfeda says, " To the south of Mosul, the lesser (?) Zab flows into the Tigris...
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    In 1798 he received the prize for an essay, De Bellorum Cruciatorum ex Abulfeda Historia; in 1805 he was appointed professor of history at Heidelberg,...
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    never regained its urban character – in the 14th century the geographer Abulfeda said it contained no inhabitants ("Tabula Syriæ", 82). According to Mujir...
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