Ya'qubi

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ʾAbū l-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī
Died AH 284 (AD 897–898)[1][2]
Occupation Arab writer, traveller and historian
Language Arabic
Period Islamic Golden Age
(Abbasid era)
Genre History and geography
Arabic name
Personal
(Ism)
ʾAḥmad
أحمد
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-Yaʿqūbī[lower-alpha 1] (died 897/8), commonly referred to simply by his nisba al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab[3][4][5][6] Muslim geographer[7] and perhaps the first historian of world culture in the Abbasid Caliphate.[8]

Life

He was born in Baghdad[3] as the great-grandson of Wadih, the freedman of the caliph Al-Mansur. Until 873 he lived in Armenia and Khorasan, working under the patronage of the Tahirids Governors; then he traveled to India, Egypt and the Maghreb,[9] and died in Egypt. He died in AH 284 (897/8).[2]

His sympathies with Ahl al-Bayt[10] are found throughout his works.[11]

In 872, he lists the kingdoms of Bilād as-Sūdān, including Ghana, Gao, and Kanem.[12]

Works

Editions

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Notes

  1. Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد بن أبي يعقوب بن جعفر بن وهب بن واضح اليعقوبي‎‎

References

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  2. 2.0 2.1 Ya'qubi at Encyclopædia Britannica
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  7. Thatcher 1911.
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  10. Camilla Adang, Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible: From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm, (E.J. Brill, 1996), 37.
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