Aleppo (pre-Ottoman) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Aleppo (pre-Ottoman) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Eddé, Anne-Marie

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060412
Doc. NO	:	ALei809
Main Entry	:	Eddé, Anne-Marie
Title & Author	:	Aleppo (pre-Ottoman) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Eddé, Anne-Marie
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,805 words)
Abstract	:	Pre-Ottoman Aleppo , in northern Syria, was ruled by many dynasties from the Islamic conquest until the arrival of the Ottomans in 922/1516. The second city of the country, after Damascus, it has a history going back to the twentieth century B.C.E. For centuries, it benefited from its position at a crossroads between Europe and Asia, the Mediterranean and Iraq, Anatolia and Arabia. According to a popular legend in the Middle Ages, the name Aleppo (Ḥalab) came from the Arabic verb ḥalaba (to milk) because Abraham would
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei809.pdf