Yaqut al-Hamawi

Muslim scholar
Name:	Yaqut ibn-'Abdullah al-Rumi al-Hamawi
Title:	Al Hamawi
Birth:	1179
Death:	1229
Ethnicity:	Turkish
Region:	Syria
Main interests:	Islamic history

Yaqut ibn-'Abdullah al-Rumi al-Hamawi) (1179–1229) (Arabic: ياقوت الحموي الرومي‎) was a Turkish biographer and geographer renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world. "al-Rumi" ("from Sultanate of Rûm") "al-Hamawi" means that he is from Hama, Syria, and ibn-Abdullah is a reference to his father's name, Abdullah. The word yaqut means ruby in Turkish.

Contents 1 History 2 Works 3 See also 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] History

Yaqut was a Turkish sold as a slave.someone who later moved to Baghdad, Iraq. He was one of the last scholars who accessed to the libraries east of the Caspian Sea before Mongol invasion of Central Asia. He travelled to the peaceful scholarly city of ancient Merv in present-day Turkmenistan. There Yaqut spent two years in libraries, learning much of the knowledge he would later use in his works.^[1]

[edit] Works

• Kitab mu'jam al-buldan (معجم البلدان "Dictionary of Countries")
• Mu'jam al-udaba' , (معجم الادباء "Dictionary of Writers") written in 1226.
• al-Mushtarak wadh'a wa al-Muftaraq Sa'qa ( المشترک وضعا و المفترق صعقا ), a version of which was printed in 1845 by Wüstenfeld.

[edit] See also

• Ibn Battuta
• Ghurabiyya Shia

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Yaqut's biography
• Yaqut al-Hamawi, at muslimheritage.com

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Name	Hamawi, Yaqut
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Date of birth	1179
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Date of death	1229
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