Yaqut ibn Abd Allah al-Hamawi, 1179?-1229
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Name (Hebrew)
יאקות בן עבד אללה אלחמוי, 1179?-1229
Name (Latin)
Yaqut ibn Abd Allah al-Hamawi, 1179?-1229
Name (Arabic)
ياقوت بن عبد الله الحموى، 1178-1229
Other forms of name
Hakut al-Hamavi, 1179?-1229
Ḣămăvi, I̐agut, 1179?-1229
Ḥamawī, Yāqūt, 1179?-1229
Ḥamawī, Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1179?-1229
I̐agut ăl-Ḣămăvi, 1179?-1229
Ĭakut al-Khamavi, 1179?-1229
Khamavi, Ĭakut, 1179?-1229
Yakut Ibn 'abdallah Al-Hamawi, 1179?-1229
Jacut, 1179?-1229
Jakut Al-Khamavi, 1179?-1229
Jaqut, 1179?-1229
Abu Zakarja Nawita
Rūmī, Yāqūt, 1179?-1229
Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allah̄ Yaʻqūb b. ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī, 1179?-1229
Şihab ed-Dîn Ebu 'Abdillah Ya'kub b. 'Abdillah el-Hamevî, 1179?-1229
Yakut al-Hamavi, 1179?-1229
Yâkût el-Hamevî, 1179?-1229
Yâkût er-Rûmî, 1179?-1229
Yāqūt, 1179?-1229
Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, 1179?-1229
Yāqūt al-Rūmī, 1179?-1229
יאקות בן עבד אללה אל-חמוי, 1179?-1229
אלחמוי, יאקות בן עבד אללה, 1179?-1229
חמוי, יאקות בן עבד אללה, 1179?-1229
אלרומי, יאקות בן עבד אללה, 1179?-1229
יאקות אלחמוי, 1179?-1229
יאקות, 1179?-1229
אלרומי, יאקות אלחמוי, 1179?-1229
אלחמוי, יאקות אלרומי, 1179?-1229
יאקות בן עבדאללה אלחמווי, 1179?-1229
אלבגדאדי, יאקות בן עבד אללה, 1179?-1229
אלבע'דאדי, יאקות בן עבד אללה, 1179?-1229
الرومي، ياقوت الحموي، 1178-1229
الحموي، ياقوت الرومي، 1178-1229
ياقوت الحموي، 1178-1229
ياقوت الرومي، 1178-1229
الحموي، ياقوت بن عبد الله، 1178-1229
الرومي، ياقوت بن عبد الله، 1178-1229
البغدادي، ياقوت بن عبد الله، 1178-1229
Date of birth
1179?
Date of death
1229
Place of death
Aleppo (Syria)
Field of activity
Booksellers and bookselling
Names, Geographical
Occupation
Geographers
Travelers
Associated Language
ara
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- His Muʼdzham al-buldan, 1983:t.p. (Ĭakut al-Khamavi) colophon (I̐agut ăl-Ḣămăvi)
- LC data base, 1-18-85(hdg.: Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī, 1179?-1229; usage: Yāqūt)
- His Irshād al-arīb ilá maʻrifat al-adīb, 1982- :v. 1, t.p. (Yāqūt al-Rūmī)
- Enc. of Islam, new ed.v. 9, p. 264 (Yāḳūt al-Rūmī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allah̄ Yaʻḳūb b. ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī; celebrated traveller and scholar; b. 574 or 5/1179; d. 20 Ramaḍān 626/12 Aug., 1229 at Aleppo)
- Arabakan aghbyurnerě ..., 1965:t.p. (Hakut al-Hamavi)
- Yâkût el-Hamevî'nin Mû'cemü'l-Büldân'ında Kürtler, 2014:page 25 (Yâkût er-Rûmî; Şihab ed-Dîn Ebu 'Abdillah Ya'kub b. 'Abdillah el-Hamevî; born 575/1179; died 20 Ramazan 626/20 August 1229 in Aleppo)
- Dictionnaire géographique de l'Afrique médiévale, 2023:title page (Yāqūt) pages 15-16 (Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī (m. [meurt/mort, i.e. died] 626/1229); born in Byzantine territory in 574 or 575/1178-1180; taken as a slave while a child, bought in Baghdad by ʻAskar ibn Ibrāhim al-Ḥamawī, a bookseller, who gave him a good education; emancipated in 586/1199-1200; upon his former owner's death he assumed the trade, traveling in the Near East, Iran and twice to Cairo; in Merv [Turkmenistan] he came up with the idea to edit a work clarifying the phonetics (vocalization) of toponyms; obliged to return to Syria due to threat of Mongol invasions; his draft was completed in Aleppo in 1224, and met with success while he continued working on a final edition; died of illness 20 ramāḍān 626 / 12 August 1229 in a khan outside Aleppo)
- יאקות אל-חמאווי (יַאקוּ֫ת בן עבדאללה אל-חַמַוִי א-רוּמִי (1178-1229; בערבית: ياقوت بن عبد الله الحَمَوي الرومي, תעתיק מדויק: יאקות בן עבד אללה אלחַמַוי אלרומי) היה ביוגרף וגאוגרף ערבי מוסלמי, ככל הנראה ממוצא יווני. אל-חמווי ידוע בכתביו ומאמריו האנציקלופדיים אודות העולם המוסלמי ( (ויקיפדיה, נצפה 05 בינואר 2025:) )
- LCN
Wikipedia description:
Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) (Arabic: ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th–13th centuries). He is known for his Mu'jam ul-Buldān, an influential work on geography containing valuable information pertaining to biography, history and literature as well as geography.
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