Nickbynames from Ibn Baṭūṭṭa
by Basil Dragonstrike
The following lists contain laqabs and nisbas I found. Note that
there are about as many definitions of the difference between a
laqab and a nisba as there are writers on the subject. I therefore
have chosen to refer to such jointly as "nickbynames," following
the example of Juliana de Luna in her article "Arabic
Names from al-Andalus: Nickbynames by type".
I have divided them up into "direct nickbynames"
(that is, those found in names in the position where nickbynames
are usually found), "nickbynames found in nasabs"
(nickbynames found only where a progenitor is referred to by his
laqab or nisba), "nickbynames found in kunyas"
(nickbynames found only where a person is referred to as the
father of someone known by his or her laqab or nisba), "nickbynames found in kunyas and nasabs"
(nickbynames found only in both kunyas and in nasabs), "nickbynames found in kunyas-in-nasabs"
(nickbynames found only where an ancestor is referred to as (to
translate) Son of the Father of al-______), and finally "nickbynames in nasabs and kunya-in-nasabs"
(nickbynames found only those nickbynames found both in nasabs and
in kunyas that are in nasabs). Nickbynames belonging to more than
one category are placed in the highest-ranking category according
to the above list.
As there are not that many women mentioned in Ibn Baṭūṭṭa (at
least in the first volume), I have put feminine names first in
each category (if there are any).
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direct nickbynames
al-‘Adawīya {female}
al-Badawīya {female}
al-Khūnda {female}
al-‘Ābidīn
al-ʻAdawī
al-Adfawī
al-Adhru‘ī
al-‘Adūlī
al-Afram
al-Aḥbār
al-Akhnā’ī
al-‘Ajamī
al-‘Alawī
al-Alfī
al-‘Ammārī
al-Andalusī
al-Anjarī
al-Anṣārī
al-‘Ansī
al-Aqmar
al-Aqṣarā’ī
al-Aqṣurī
al-Āqūsh
al-Asadī
al-Ashrafī
al-‘Askalānī
al-Asmarī
al-Asqa‘
al-‘Atrīs
al-Āwajī
al-Awharī
al-Āwī
al-Azdī
al-Azraqī
al-Badrī
al-Badawī
al-Baghdādī
al-Baisānī
al-Bajadī
al-Bakrī
al-Balfīqī
al-Badrī
al-Birzālī
al-Buḥturī
al-Bukharī
al-Burqu‘ī
al-Dā’ūdī
al-Damīrī
al-Dārānī
al-Dārī
al-Dawādār
al-Dimashqī
al-Dimyāṭī
al-Falawī
al-Farabrī
al-Fāriqī
al-Fārisī
al-Fārūq
al-Fāsī
al-Fayyūm
al-Firkāḥ
al-Gharnāṭī
al-Ghasūlī
al-Ghazzi
al-Gurgī
al-Ḥabashī
al-Ḥadrabī
al-Ḥajar
al-Ḥajjār
al-Hakkārī
al-Ḥalabī
al-Ḥamawī
al-Hamdānī
al-Ḥanafī
al-Ḥanbalī
al-Harawī
al-Ḥarīrī
al-Ḥarrānī
al-Ḥasanī
al-Hawārī
al-Ḥawīh
al-Ḥawrānī
al-Ḥijāzi
al-Hindī
al-Ḥusainī
al-Ḥuwaizāʼī
al-Ibrāhīmī
al-Idrīsī
al-ʻIrāqī
al-Iṣbahānī
al-Iskandarī
al-Isnā’i
al-Ja‘barī
al-Jāliq
al-Jamālī
al-Jarānī
al-Jāwalī
al-Jawwānī
al-Jūbān
al-Jumaḥī
al-Jurhumi
al-Kalbī
al-Kāmil
al-Karakī
al-Karbalā’ī
al-Kāshif
al-Khālidī
al-Khalīl
al-Khaṣīb
al-Khawlānī
al-Khazrajī
al-Khuzā‘ī
al-Khūzī
al-Kindī
al-Kirmānī
al-Kūbak
al-Kurdī
al-Lakhmī
al-Lawātī
al-Liḥyānī
al-Ma‘arrī
al-Maghribī
al-Makkī
al-Mālaqī
al-Malīḥī
al-Mālikī
al-Manṣūrī
al-Manūfī
al-Maqdisī
al-Marāghī
al-Marrākushī
al-Mashshāṭī
al-Maṭarī
al-Miknāsī
al-Miṣrī
al-Mizzī
al-Mudlijī
al-Muḥajjī
al-Muḥammadī
al-Muḥsinī
al-Mūlah
al-Murshidī
al-Mursī
al-Murtaḍā
al-Mutanabbī
al-Muzanī
al-Muzraqq
al-Nābulusī
al-Nafzāwī
al-Najdī
al-Nās
al-Nāṣirī
al-Nu‘aimī
al-Nuwairī
al-‘Omarī
al-Qaddāḥ
al-Qafṣī
al-Qaisarānī
al-Qaisī
al-Qalānisī
al-Qalqashandī
al-Qaranī
al-Qasṭallānī
al-Qaṭī‘ī
al-Qazwīnī
al-Qibṭī
al-Qināwī
al-Qirimī
al-Quḍā‘ī
al-Qūnawī
al-Qurashī
al-Qurṭubī
al-Rabī‘ī
al-Rāzī
al-Rib‘ī
al-Riḍā
al-Rifā‘ī
al-Rīghī
al-Rūmī
al-Rushāṭī
al-Sā‘ātī
al-Sa‘dī
al-Ṣafāqusī
al-Sahartī
al-Ṣairafī
al-Sakhāwī
al-Ṣāliḥī
al-Sam‘ānī
al-Ṣanawbarī
al-Ṣanhājī
al-Sarakhsī
al-Sarawī
al-Sāwaqī
al-Sāwī
al-Shādhilī
al-Shāfi‘ī
al-Shāmī
al-Shamsī
al-Sharābishī
al-Shariq
al-Sharīshī
al-Shīrāzī
al-Ṣiddīq
al-Sijzī
al-Subkī
al-Sulamī
al-Sūsī
al-Ṭabarī
al-Takrūrī
al-Ṭanjī
al-Tanūkhī
al-Tarrās
al-Tawzarī
al-Thawrī
al-Tilingī
al-Timurtāshī
al-Tinnīsī
al-Tujībī
al-Tūnisī
al-Tūzarī
al-‘Umarī
al-Umawī
al-Usfūnī
al-Ushmunain
al-Wāsiṭī
al-Yāfi‘ī
al-Zabīdī
al-Zāhirī
al-Zawāwī
al-Zimlikānī
al-Zubaidī
al-Zuwāwī
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nickbynames found only in nasabs
al-‘Adīm
al-‘Amīd
al-‘Arabī
al-‘Āṣ
al-‘Awāmm
al-Bābā {same as al-Bābah, possibly a different trans. system, or
a typo}
al-Bābah
al-Bahā’
al-Burhān
al-Faqīh
al-Ghammāz
al-Ḥakam
al-Jarrāḥ
al-Kamād
al-Khaṭīb
al-Khaṭṭāb
al-Muʼaiyad
al-Munīr
al-Muẓaffar
al-Najjār
al-Naqīb
al-Nu‘mān
al-Qawba‘
al-Qiftī
al-Ṣabbāgh
al-Sadīd
al-Sarrāj
al-Ṣāyigh
al-Shaibānī
al-Sindī
al-Wā‘iẓ
al-Zakī
al-Zayyāt
al-Zubair
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nickbynames found only in kunyas
{note that all originally are of the form "Abu'l-___", except for
"Umm al-Dardā’"; I have removed the "Abu" and changed the "'" to
an "a"}
Umm al-Dardā’
al-‘Alā
al-Barakāt
al-Dardā’
al-Fidā
al-Fityān
al-Maḥāsin
al-Najāh
al-Rabī‘
al-Ṭayyib
al-Waḥsh
al-Waqt
al-Yusr
al-Zahr
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nickbynames found in kunyas and nasabs
al-Faraj
al-Munajjā
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nickbynames found only in kunyas-in-nasabs
al-Haijā
al-Hawwārī
al-Majd
al-Nu‘m
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nickbynames in nasabs and kunya-in-nasabs
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