Yāqūt ar-Rūmī
Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī ar-Rūmī (born around 1179 in Asia Minor ; died 1229 in Aleppo , Syria ), with full name: Schihab ad-Din Abu 'Abd Allah ibn Yaqut al-Hamawi ar-Rumi /شهاب الدين أبو عبد الله بن ياقوت الحموي الرومي / Shihāb ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh b. Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī ar-Rūmī was an Arab geographer of Greek descent. He took Nisba al-Hamawi from the name of his master ͑Askar ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Ibrahīm al-Hamawī .
After Baghdad sold, he was released there in 1199 and Islamic educated. As a traveling salesman, librarian and calligrapher, he traveled to Egypt , Syria , Iraq , Khorasan and Khorezmia .
Around 1220, Yaqut met young Muslims from Hungary in Aleppo and wrote a historically rare report based on their stories about Islam in Hungary .
When describing the city, he made derogatory comments about the inhabitants of Isfahan , especially their Jewish population.
Works
- Muʿdjam al-buldān [Jacut's Geographical Dictionary]. Volumes I – VI. Ed. F. Wüstenfeld , Leipzig 1866–73; 1924. Reprint Tehran 1965; Beirut 1955-1957; Frankfurt 1994. ISBN 3-8298-1197-7 (original in Arabic ISBN 964-435-979-8 ) ( digitized ).
- Kitāb Iršād al-arīb ilā maʿrifat al-adīb al-maʿrūf bi-muʿǧam al-udabāʾ wa-ṭabaqāt al-udabāʾ , ed. DS Margoliouth , Brill, Leyden [and a.] 1907ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Yāqūt ar-Rūmī in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works and literature about Yaqut al-Hamawi ar-Rumi ( Memento from September 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Gotthard Strohmaier : Avicenna. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-41946-1 , p. 135.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yāqūt ar-Rūmī |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī ar-Rūmī; Jaqut; al-Hamawi (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | oriental geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1179 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Asia Minor |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1229 |
| Place of death | Aleppo , Syria |