Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī, 1179?-1229

LC control no.	n 84172872
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī, 1179?-1229 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Hakut al-Hamavi, 1179?-1229 Ḣămăvi, I̐agut, 1179?-1229 Ḥamawī, Yāqūt, 1179?-1229 Ḥamawī, Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1179?-1229 I̐agut ăl-Ḣămăvi, 1179?-1229 Ĭakut al-Khamavi, 1179?-1229 Khamavi, Ĭakut, 1179?-1229 Rūmī, Yāqūt, 1179?-1229 Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allah̄ Yaʻqūb b. ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī, 1179?-1229 Şihab ed-Dîn Ebu 'Abdillah Ya'kub b. 'Abdillah el-Hamevî, 1179?-1229 Yakut al-Hamavi, 1179?-1229 Yâkût el-Hamevî, 1179?-1229 Yâkût er-Rûmî, 1179?-1229 Yāqūt, 1179?-1229 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, 1179?-1229 Yāqūt al-Rūmī, 1179?-1229 شهاب الدين أبو عبد الله ياقوت بن عبد الله الحموي الرومي البغدادي ياقوت ابن عبد الله الحموي ياقوت بن عبد الله الحموي ياقوت الحموي، 1179-1229 ياقوت بن عبد الله الحموي، 1179-1229 ياقوت بن عبد الله الحموي، 1229-1179? ياقوت بن عبدالله الحموي ياقوت بن عبدالله الحموي، 1229-1179
Birth date	1179? [1178,1180]
Death date	1229 1229-08-12
Place of death	Aleppo (Syria)
Field of activity	Booksellers and bookselling Names, Geographical
Profession or occupation	Geographers Travelers
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	His Muʼdzham al-buldan, 1983: t.p. (Ĭakut al-Khamavi) colophon (I̐agut ăl-Ḣămăvi) LC data base, 1-18-85 (hdg.: Yāqūt ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī, 1179?-1229; usage: Yāqūt) His Irshād al-arīb ilá maʻrifat al-adīb, 1982- : v. 1, t.p. (Yāqūt al-Rūmī) Enc. of Islam, new ed. v. 9, p. 264 (Yāḳūt al-Rūmī, Shihāb al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allah̄ Yaʻḳūb b. ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥamawī; celebrated traveller and scholar; b. 574 or 5/1179; d. 20 Ramaḍān 626/12 Aug., 1229 at Aleppo) Arabakan aghbyurnerě ..., 1965: t.p. (Hakut al-Hamavi) Yâkût el-Hamevî'nin Mû'cemü'l-Büldân'ında Kürtler, 2014: page 25 (Yâkût er-Rûmî; Şihab ed-Dîn Ebu 'Abdillah Ya'kub b. 'Abdillah el-Hamevî; born 575/1179; died 20 Ramazan 626/20 August 1229 in Aleppo) Dictionnaire géographique de l'Afrique médiévale, 2023: title page (Yāqūt) pages 15-16 (Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī (m. [meurt/mort, i.e. died] 626/1229); born in Byzantine territory in 574 or 575/1178-1180; taken as a slave while a child, bought in Baghdad by ʻAskar ibn Ibrāhim al-Ḥamawī, a bookseller, who gave him a good education; emancipated in 586/1199-1200; upon his former owner's death he assumed the trade, traveling in the Near East, Iran and twice to Cairo; in Merv [Turkmenistan] he came up with the idea to edit a work clarifying the phonetics (vocalization) of toponyms; obliged to return to Syria due to threat of Mongol invasions; his draft was completed in Aleppo in 1224, and met with success while he continued working on a final edition; died of illness 20 ramāḍān 626 / 12 August 1229 in a khan outside Aleppo)
Associated language	ara