Ya'qubi
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Al-Ya'qubi
)ʾAbū l-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī | ||
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Born | Patronymic (Nasab) bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ | بن أبي يعقوب بن جعفر بن وهب بن واضح |
Teknonymic (Kunya) | ʾAbū l-ʿAbbās أبو العباس | |
Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Yaʿqūbī اليعقوبي |
ʾAbū l-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-YaʿqūbīMuslim geographer.[7]
Life
Ya'qubi was born in
Kanem.[10]
His methodical approach to writing history includes personal observations and interviews to close relations on topics that Yaqubi could not encounter first-hand. He covered on topics of natural, human and economic geography as well as noting down cultural, historical and topographic information.[9]
His sympathies with Ahl al-Bayt[11] are found throughout his works.[12]
He died in Egypt on
AH 284 (897/8).[2]
Works
- Ta'rikh ibn Wadih (Chronicle of Ibn Wadih)
- Kitab al-Buldan (Book of the Countries) - biology, 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).[8]
Editions
- Gordon, Mathew S. and al. (2018). The Works Of Ibn Wāḍiḥ Al Yaʿqūbī. Brill. pp. Vol 1, 2, 3. ISBN 9789004364165.
- Ya'qubi (1861). A. W. T. Juynboll (ed.). Kitab al-Buldan (in Arabic). BRILL.
Notes
- Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد بن أبي يعقوب بن جعفر بن وهب بن واضح اليعقوبي
References
- ^ "Muhammad's successor". www.ismaili.net. Archived from the original on 2006-11-26. Retrieved 2006-10-29.
- ^ a b Ya'qubi at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ from the original on 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
- ^ "Al-Yaʿqūbī | Arab historian and geographer". Archived from the original on 2021-08-27. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
- ^ Universalis, Encyclopædia. "AL YA'QUBI". Encyclopædia Universalis. Archived from the original on 2021-05-09. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
- ^ "Al-Ya'qubi | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
- ^ Thatcher 1911.
- ^ a b c public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Ya'qūbī". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 904. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ ISBN 978-1-84472-063-7.
- ISBN 0841904316.
- ^ Camilla Adang, Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible: From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm, (E.J. Brill, 1996), 37.
- ^ "al-Yaʿqūbī | Arab historian and geographer | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Archived from the original on 2021-08-27. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
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