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Ibn Qalaqis, the Glossary

Abu ʾl-Fatḥ Naṣr Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh (1137–1172), known as Ibn Qalāqis (or Ḳalāḳis) and also al-Qāḍī al-aʿazz ("he most honorable judge"), was an Egyptian Arab poet and author.^[1]

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1137 births
1172 deaths
12th-century Arabic-language poets
12th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate
12th-century travelers
Kingdom of Sicily people
Poets from the Fatimid Caliphate
Travel writers of the medieval Islamic world
Writers from Alexandria

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī (أبو طاهر السلفي; born Isfahan in 472 AH/1079 CE, died Alexandria in 576/1180), was one of the leading scholars of hadith in the twelfth-century. Ibn Qalaqis and Abu Tahir al-Silafi are 12th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate.

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Abu'l-Qasim ibn Hammud ibn al-Hajar

Abu'l-Qasim ibn Hammud ibn al-Hajar (أبو القاسمبن حمود بن الحجر|Abū al-Qāsim ibn Ḥammūd ibn al-Ḥajar) was a senior official or Qaid (Arabic for 'commander') of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, and a leader of the Muslim community of Sicily.

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Aden

Aden (Old South Arabian: 𐩲𐩵𐩬) is a port city located in Yemen in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, positioned near the eastern approach to the Red Sea.

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Alexandria

Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

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Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Arabic literature

Arabic literature (الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Badi, Sudan

Bāḍiʿ was a medieval African port on the Red Sea.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Caltavuturo

Caltavuturo (Sicilian: Caltavuturu) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

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Caronia

Caronia (Sicilian: Carunìa, Greek: Καλάκτα (Ptol.) or Καλὴ Ἀκτὴ (Diod. et al.), Latin: Calacte or Cale Acte) is a town and comune on the north coast of Sicily, in the province of Messina, about halfway between Tyndaris (modern Tindari) and Cephaloedium (modern Cefalù).

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Cefalù

Cefalù (Cifalù), classically known as Cephaloedium (Kephaloídion), is a city and comune in the Italian Metropolitan City of Palermo, located on the Tyrrhenian coast of Sicily about east of the provincial capital and west of Messina.

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Dahlak Archipelago

The Dahlak Archipelago is an Eritrean island group located in the Red Sea, measuring around 643 square km (248 square miles) and lying roughly 58 kilometers (31 nautical miles, 36 miles) east of Massawa, the regional capital city.

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Diwan (poetry)

In Islamic cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, Sicily and South Asia, a Diwan (دیوان, divân, ديوان, dīwān) is a collection of poems by one author, usually excluding his or her long poems (mathnawī).

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Epistolary novel

An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of letters between the fictional characters of a narrative.

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ʿAydhab

ʿAydhab (عَيذاب, also Aidab) was an important medieval port on the west coast of the Red Sea.

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Farhad Daftary

Farhad Daftary (فرهاد دفترى; born 1938) is a Belgian-born Iranian-British Islamic scholar who is co-director and head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London.

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Fatimid Caliphate

The Fatimid Caliphate or Fatimid Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Fāṭimiyya) was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shia dynasty.

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Hijri year

The Hijri year (سَنة هِجْريّة) or era (التقويمالهجري at-taqwīm al-hijrī) is the era used in the Islamic lunar calendar.

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Hugo Falcandus

Hugo Falcandus was a historian who chronicled the reigns of William I of Sicily and the minority of his son William II in a highly critical work entitled The History of the Tyrants of Sicily (or Liber de Regno Sicilie).

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Ibn Masal

Najm al-Din Abu'l-Fath Salim/Sulayman ibn Muhammad al-Lukki al-Maghribi (Najm al-Dīn Abu’l-Fatḥ Salīm/Sulaymān ibn Muḥammad al-Lukkī al-Maghribī), better known as Ibn Masal (Ibn Maṣāl), was a military commander and official of the Fatimid Caliphate, who served briefly as the de facto vizier of the Caliphate from 1144/45 until he was overthrown and killed by al-Adil ibn al-Sallar and his supporters in the winter of 1149/50. Ibn Qalaqis and ibn Masal are 12th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate.

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Imad al-Din al-Isfahani

Muhammad ibn Hamid (translit; 1125 – 20 June 1201), commonly known as Imad al-Din al-Isfahani (عماد الدین اصفهانی), was a historian, scholar, and rhetorician.

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John Winter Crowfoot CBE (28 July 1873 – 6 December 1959) was a British educational administrator and archaeologist.

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Kingdom of Sicily

The Kingdom of Sicily (Regnum Siciliae; Regno di Sicilia; Regnu di Sicilia) was a state that existed in Sicily and the south of the Italian Peninsula plus, for a time, in Northern Africa from its founding by Roger II of Sicily in 1130 until 1816.

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Lentini

Lentini (Lintini, historically Liuntini; Leontīnī; Λεοντῖνοι) is a town and comune in the Province of Syracuse, southeastern Sicily (Southern Italy), located 35 km (22 miles) north-west of Syracuse.

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Lipari

Lipari (Lìpari) is a comune including six of seven islands of the Aeolian Islands (Lipari, Vulcano, Panarea, Stromboli, Filicudi and Alicudi) and it is located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the northern coast of Sicily, Southern Italy; it is administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Messina.

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List of Fatimid caliphs

This is a list of an Arab dynasty, the Shi'ite caliphs of the Fatimid dynasty (909–1171).

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Margaret of Navarre

Margaret of Navarre (Marguerite, Margarita, Margherita) (c. 1135 – 12 August 1183) was Queen of Sicily as the wife of William I (1154–1166) and the regent during the minority of her son, William II.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Messina

Messina (Missina) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina.

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Michele Amari

Michele Benedetto Gaetano Amari (7 July 1806 in Palermo – 16 July 1889 in Florence) was a Sicilian patriot, liberal revolutionary and politician of aristocratic background, historian and orientalist.

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Milazzo

Milazzo (Milazzu; Mylae) is a municipality (comune) in the Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, southern Italy; it is the largest commune in the Metropolitan City after Messina and Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto.

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Muqaddimah (disambiguation)

Muqaddimah is and early Islamic treatise on world history by Ibn Khaldun.

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Norman–Arab–Byzantine culture

The term Norman–Arab–Byzantine culture, Norman–Sicilian culture or, less inclusively, Norman–Arab culture, (sometimes referred to as the "Arab-Norman civilization") refers to the interaction of the Norman, Byzantine Greek, Latin, and Arab cultures following the Norman conquest of the former Emirate of Sicily and North Africa from 1061 to around 1250.

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Oliveri

Oliveri (Sicilian: Oluveri) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about west of Messina.

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Palermo

Palermo (Palermu, locally also Paliemmu or Palèimmu) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.

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Patti, Sicily

Patti is a town and comune in northeastern Sicily, southern Italy, administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the western shore of the gulf of the same name.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Qadi

A qāḍī (Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, kadi, kadhi, kazi, or gazi) is the magistrate or judge of a sharīʿa court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and minors, and supervision and audition of public works.

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Qaid

Qaid (قائد, "commander"; pl.), also spelled kaid or caïd, is a word meaning "commander" or "leader." It was a title in the Norman kingdom of Sicily, applied to palatine officials and members of the curia, usually to those who were Muslims or converts to Islam.

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Qasida

The qaṣīda (also spelled qaṣīdah; plural qaṣā’id) is an ancient Arabic word and form of poetry, often translated as ode,.

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Ramadan

Ramadan (Ramaḍān; also spelled Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer (salah), reflection, and community.

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Richard the Qaid

Richard the Qaid was a senior official (qāʾid, commander) of the royal council (curia regis or diwan) in the court of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily at Palermo during the latter years of the reign of William I of Sicily and during the regency of his wife, Margaret of Navarre, for their son William II.

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Shawar

Shawar ibn Mujir al-Sa'di (Shāwar ibn Mujīr al-Saʿdī; died 18 January 1169) was an Arab de facto ruler of Fatimid Egypt, as its vizier, from December 1162 until his assassination in 1169 by the general Shirkuh, the uncle of the future Ayyubid leader Saladin, with whom he was engaged in a three-way power struggle against the Crusader Amalric I of Jerusalem. Ibn Qalaqis and Shawar are 12th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Sultanate of Dahlak

The Sultanate of Dahlak was a small medieval kingdom covering the Dahlak Archipelago and parts of the Eritrean coast.

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Syracuse, Sicily

Syracuse (Siracusa; Sarausa) is a historic city on the Italian island of Sicily, the capital of the Italian province of Syracuse.

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Termini Imerese

Termini Imerese (Tèrmini) is a town of the Metropolitan City of Palermo on the northern coast of Sicily, in Italy.

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Umara ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Yamani

Umāra ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Yamanī (عمارة بن ابي الحسن اليمني) was a historian, jurist and poet of Yemen of great repute who was closely associated with the late Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. Ibn Qalaqis and Umara ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Yamani are 12th-century Arabic-language poets and 12th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Qalaqis

Also known as Abu al-Futuh Nasr al-Lakhmi, Ibn Kalakis, Ibn Qalāqis, Ibn Ḳalāḳis.

, Termini Imerese, Umara ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Yamani, William I of Sicily, Yemen, Zabid, Zurayids.

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1137 births

1172 deaths

12th-century Arabic-language poets

12th-century people from the Fatimid Caliphate

12th-century travelers

Kingdom of Sicily people

Poets from the Fatimid Caliphate

Travel writers of the medieval Islamic world

Writers from Alexandria

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