Yaqut al-Mustaʿsimi

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al-Musta'simi attributed calligraphy in Thuluth -Schrift

Yaqut al-Mustaʿsimi ( Arabic ياقوت المستعصمي, DMG Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī ; actually Abu al-Madschd Jamal ad-Din Yaqut bin ʿAbd Allah al-Mustaʿsimi ; * in Amasya ; † around 1298 in Baghdad ) was an Arabic calligrapher .

Life

He received the Nisba "al-Mustaʿsimi" from the last Abbasid caliph al-Musta'sim bi-'llah , who acquired him as a servant in childhood and had him raised and trained. The origin of Yaqut al-Mustaʿsimi is unclear. Possibly he was of Turkish or Rhomean origin from Amasya. According to a tradition from Qadi Ahmad, Yaqut was of Ethiopian origin.

Yaqut lived in Baghdad almost his entire life. Under the Abbasids he worked as a librarian in the al-Mustansiriyya Madrasa . He survived the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols by hiding in a minaret. Yaqut later gained the favor of the wazir Shams ad-Din al-Juwaini.

reception

Rafik Schami mentions Yakut al-Musta'simi in his novel The Secret of the Calligrapher (2008), where he is mentioned as the founder of a secret society and describes himself as a student of Ibn Muqla .

literature

  • Sheila R. Canby, in: The Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition , sv YĀḲŪT al-MUSTAʿṢIMĪ.
  • Muhittin Serin, in: Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi , sv YÂKŪT el-MÜSTA'SIMÎ

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rafik Schami : The secret of the calligrapher . Hanser, Munich 2008, p. 402.
personal data
SURNAME Yaqut al-Mustaʿsimi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION arabic calligrapher
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Amasya
DATE OF DEATH around 1298
Place of death Baghdad