Al Yaqubi
Al Yaqubi or Al-Yaqubi (died 897/8), known as Ahmad al-Ya'qubi, or Ya'qubi, was a Muslim geographer[1] and perhaps the first historian of world culture in medieval Islam.[2]
Full name
Ahmad ibn Abu Ya'qub ibn Ja'far ibn Wahb Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi
His life
He was a great-grandson of Wadih, the freedman of the caliph Mansur. Until 873 he lived in Armenia and Khorasan, working under the patronage of the Iranian dynasty of the Tahirids; then he traveled to India, Egypt and the Maghreb, where he died in Egypt. He died in AH 284 (897/8).[3]
His Shia sympathies are found throughout his works.[4]
His Works
- Ta'rikh ibn Wadih (Chronicle of Ibn Wadih)[4]
- Kitab al-Buldan (Book of the Countries) - geography, contains a description of the Maghreb, with a full account of the larger cities and much topographical and political information (ed. M. de Goeje, Leiden, 1892).[5]
References
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
- ↑ Daly, Okasha El (2005). Egyptology : the missing millennium : ancient Egypt in medieval Arabic writings. London: UCL. p. 166. ISBN 1844720632
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
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