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A Muslim Tombstone from Paphos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

A. H. S. Megaw
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Mr. ST. H. STEPHAN began to study this monument but died before he had finished the work. He made the following acknowledgments:—

“I have to thank the Director of Antiquities, Cyprus, Mr. A. H. S. Megaw, and Mr. Loizos Philippou, Hon. Curator of the Paphos District Museum for information and kind permission to publish this article. My thanks are also due to Mr. P. Dikaios, Curator of the Cyprus Museum, to Miss A. Paschalidou, Keeper of the photographic records in the Department, and to the Librarian, Mr. D. Daniel.”

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 82 , Issue 3-4 , July 1950 , pp. 108 - 109
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1950

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References

page 108 note 1 Repertoire d'épigraphie arabe, no. 24.

page 109 note 1 Constantine Porphyrogenitus (ed. Bonn 3, 40) says that Abū Bakr led a raid in 632, accompanied by his daughter. No modern historian believes this.

page 109 note 2 Theophanes (ed. Bonn), p. 525 f.; Balādhurī, Futūḥ al-buldān, pp. 152 ff.

page 109 note 3 For a description see The Tekké of Haram, Umm, Country Life, vol. 105 (1949), p. 1264Google Scholar; and for worship at the tomb JRAS., 1897, pp. 94 ff.

page 109 note 4 Bukhārī (ed. Krehl), 2, 199. Umm Ḥaram is the only name known to the early authorities; it may have been her name; it may be “Mother of Ḥaram”, or it may mean “the venerable”. The prophet was intimate with her.

page 109 note 5 Hill, History of Cyprus supersedes earlier works.