Ya'qubi
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| Name: | Ya'qubi |
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| Death: | 284 AH (898) [1] or 897 CE [2] |
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Ya'qubi (d. 897) was a Muslim historian and geographer [2].
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[edit] Etymology
His full name was Ahmad ibn Abu Ya'qub ibn Ja'far ibn Wahb Ibn Wadih Al-ya'qubi (Arabic:?) [2].
[edit] Biography
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 travelled in India, Egypt and the Maghreb, where he died in Sgt. He is said to have died in 897 CE [2].
[edit] Works
- Ta'rikh ibn Wadih (Chronicle of Ibn Wadih) [2]
- 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) [2].
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.ismaili.net/histoire/history03/history337.html
- ^ a b c d e f Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain
