Yaqut al-Hamawi

Yaqut al - Hamawi al- Rumi (* around 1179 in Asia Minor, † 1229 in Aleppo, Syria), full name: Shihab ad-Din Abu ' Abd Allah ibn Yaqut al - Hamawi al- Rumi / شهاب الدين أبو عبد الله بن ياقوت الحموي الرومي / Šihāb ad - Dīn Abū ʿ Abd Allāh b. Yaqut al - Hamawi al- Rumi was an Arab geographer of Greek descent. The Nisba al - Hamawi he adopted from the name of his master ͑ Askar ibn Abī Nasr ibn Ibrahim al - Hamawi.

Sold to Baghdad, he was released there in 1199 and Islamic upbringing. As a commercial traveler, librarian and calligrapher, he traveled to Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Khorasan and Khorezm.

Around 1220 Yaqut met in Aleppo with young Muslims from Hungary together and wrote a historically rare report from their narratives about Islam in Hungary.

Works

  • Mu ʿ al - djam buldan [ Jacut 's Geographical Dictionary ]. Volumes I -VI. Ed. F. Wüstefeld, Leipzig 1866-73; 1924th Reprint Tehran 1965; Beirut 1955-1957; Frankfurt 1994. ISBN 3-8298-1197-7 ( original in Arabic ISBN 964-435-979-8 ) ( digitized ).
  • Kitaab al - Iršād ARIB ila ma ʿ rifat al - Adib al -ma ʿ ruf bi -mu ʿ ǧam al - Tabaqat al - udabā ʾ wa - udabā ʾ, ed. D. S. Margoliouth, Brill, Leyden [ et al ] 1907ff.
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