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Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī, 1179?-1229


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    • 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
    • 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
    • شهاب الدين أبو عبد الله ياقوت بن عبد الله الحموي الرومي البغدادي
    • ياقوت ابن عبد الله الحموي
    • ياقوت بن عبد الله الحموي
    • ياقوت الحموي، 1179-1229
    • ياقوت بن عبد الله الحموي، 1179-1229
    • ياقوت بن عبد الله الحموي، 1229-1179?
    • ياقوت بن عبدالله الحموي
    • ياقوت بن عبدالله الحموي، 1229-1179

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    • found: His Muʼdzham al-buldan, 1983:t.p. (Ĭakut al-Khamavi) colophon (I̐agut ăl-Ḣămăvi)
    • found: LC data base, 1-18-85(hdg.: Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī, 1179?-1229; usage: Yāqūt)
    • found: His Irshād al-arīb ilá maʻrifat al-adīb, 1982- :v. 1, t.p. (Yāqūt al-Rūmī)
    • found: 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)
    • found: Arabakan aghbyurnerě ..., 1965:t.p. (Hakut al-Hamavi)
    • found: 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)
    • found: 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)

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    • 1985-01-23: new
    • 2024-02-06: revised

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