Mohammed Bin Al-Kadesi – Excerpts about Hattin as quoted in  Abu Shama’s Book of the Two Gardens

Bibliographic Information

Medieval Title: 

Mohammed Bin Al-Kadesi Reference to True Cross as quoted in Abu Shama’s The Book of the Two Gardens

Author:

Mohammed Bin Al-Kadesi

Composition: 

Early Thirteenth Century

A short biography Found in and Translated From Shams el-Din, Ibrahim ed. The Book of the Two Gardens by Shihab al-Din Abu L-Qasim Abu Shama. Vol. 3-4, Dar Al-Kotob Al-‘Elmiyah. 1987. (page 34):  

Mohammed Bin al-Kadesi: It is Mohammed Bin Ahmad Bin Mohammed Bin Ali, Abu Abdullah Al-Kadesi, in relation to al-Kadessiyah, a village between Samra’a and Baghdad, and not Kadessiyah of the Kufa in which the famous event happened. He died in the year 632 AH [1234-5 CE], and he had a compilation of: “Zayl al-Muntazam” and “Akhbar al-Wozara’a.”

Textual Information

Brief Summary:

Mentions capture of Cross in his account of Hattin, according to Abu Shama’s quotation of Al-Kadesi in Book of the Two Gardens

Relics Appearing in Text:

True Cross

Manuscripts, Editions, and Translations

Manuscripts: 

List of Editions of the Medieval Text: 

Abu Shama, Shihab al-Din Abu L-Qasim. “The Book of the Two Gardens.” In Recueil des Historiens des Croisades: Historiens Orientaux. Vols. 4-5. (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1898-1906; repr. as one volume 1967).

Abu Shama, Shihab al-Din Abu L-Qasim ed. The Book of the Two Gardens. Vol. 2. Beirut: Dar Al-Jeel, 1956.

Shams el-Din, Ibrahim ed. The Book of the Two Gardens by Shihab al-Din Abu L-Qasim Abu Shama. Vol. 3-4, Dar Al-Kotob Al-‘Elmiyah. 1987.

List of Translations of the Medieval Text: 

Translated into French in Recueil Des Historiens Des Croisades: Historiens Orientaux. Vol. 4, pp. 286-88.

Original Editions/Translations We Have Produced: 

Description of the True Cross by Mohammed Bin Al-Kadesi Translated by Hisham Al Khatib (click here)