Al-Qifti shelters Yaqut al-Hamawi at Aleppo, c. 625/1228

القفطي يُؤوي ياقوت الحموي بحلب، نحو ٦٢٥هـ

c. 1228 CE · c. 625 AH

Aleppo

Al-Qifti used his influential office to further scholarship: he sheltered at Aleppo Yaqut al-Hamawi, who had fled the Mongols, and gave him much help in the compilation of his great geographical dictionary 1; this fell within his years over the diwan of finances before his dismissal in 628 1.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq

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1210122012301240 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Aleppo

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Summary

Al-Qifti used his influential office to further scholarship: he sheltered at Aleppo Yaqut al-Hamawi, who had fled the Mongols, and gave him much help in the compilation of his great geographical dictionary 1; this fell within his years over the diwan of finances before his dismissal in 628 1.

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Had participant
al-Qadi al-Akram al-Qifti· Yaqut al-Hamawi
Occurred at
Aleppo
During the reign of
al-Mustansir bi'llah Mansur ibn al-Zahir

People and things also explored

Al-Qifti is dismissed at his own request and turns to writing, 628/1230· Al-Malik al-Aziz appoints al-Qifti vizier of Aleppo, 633/1236· Yaqut begins the definitive edition of the Mujam al-Buldan for al-Qifti's library, 21 Muharram 625/1 January 1228· Yaqut presented to the vizier al-Qadi al-Akram al-Qifti at Aleppo, 609/1212· Aleppo· Al-Qifti leaves Jerusalem for Aleppo, 598/1201· The Qadi al-Akram al-Qifti dies at Aleppo, Ramadan 646/1248· Al-Malik al-Zahir puts al-Qifti over Aleppo's diwan of finances, c. 606/1210

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 3 p. 872
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Al-Qifti is dismissed at his own request and turns to writing, 628/1230

Dismissed at his own request in 628/1230, al-Qifti was able to devote a few years to his own studies until al-Malik al-Aziz appointed him vizier in 633/1236.