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The Byzantine King's Request for the Mandylion of Edessa

التماس ملك الروم منديل الرها

c. 942 CE · 331 AH

In 331 a letter came from the Byzantine king seeking the kerchief on which — the account runs — Christ had wiped his face, leaving its image, kept in the church of Edessa; he promised Muslim captives' release if it were sent 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Anatolia
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930940950960 c.
Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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In 331 a letter came from the king of the Byzantines seeking the kerchief on which — as the account runs — Christ had wiped his face so that his image was fixed in it, that kerchief being in the church of Edessa; and he promised, if it were sent to him, to release the Muslim captives 1.

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 623
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