Ya'qubi

For the Syrian Islamic scholar, see Muhammad al-Yaqoubi.
ʾAbū l-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī
BornBaghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
DiedAH 284 (AD 897–898)[1][2]
Occupationwriter, traveller and historian
LanguageArabic
PeriodIslamic Golden Age
(Abbasid era)
GenreHistory and geography
Notable worksTa'rikh ibn Wadih and Kitab al-Buldan
Arabic name
Personal
(Ism)		ʾAḥmad
أحمد
Patronymic
(Nasab)		bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ
بن أبي يعقوب بن جعفر بن وهب بن واضح
Teknonymic
(Kunya)		ʾAbū l-ʿAbbās
أبو العباس
Toponymic
(Nisba)		al-Yaʿqūbī
اليعقوبي

ʾAbū al-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī[a] (died 897/8), commonly referred to simply by his nisba al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab[3][4][5][6] Muslim geographer.[7]

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  2. ^ Ya'qubi at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  3. ^ Zaman, Muhammad Qasim (1960–2009). The encyclopaedia of Islam. H. A. R. Gibb, P. J. Bearman (II. ed.). Leiden: Brill. pp. 257–258. ISBN 90-04-16121-X. OCLC 399624. Archived from the original on 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
  4. ^ "Al-Yaʿqūbī | Arab historian and geographer". Archived from the original on 2021-08-27. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  5. ^ Universalis, Encyclopædia. "AL YA'QUBI". Encyclopædia Universalis. Archived from the original on 2021-05-09. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  6. ^ "Al-Ya'qubi | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  7. ^ Thatcher 1911.


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