Yaqut al-Hamawi

Yaqut ibn-'Abdullah al-Rumi al-Hamawi
Personal
Born1179
Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
(modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Died1229 (aged 49–50)
ReligionIslam
EraLater Abbasid era (12th–13th century)
RegionMesopotamia
Main interest(s)Islamic history, geography, biography

Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn[1] ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) (Arabic: ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry[2] 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.[3][4]

  1. ^ Dodge, Bayard, ed. (1970). The Fihrist of al-Nadim. Vol. 2. New York & London: Columbia University Press. p. 902.
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  3. ^ David C. Conrad, Empires of Medieval West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay, (Shoreline Publishing, 2005), 26.
  4. ^ Ludwig W. Adamec, The A to Z of Islam, (Scarecrow Press, 2009), 333.