At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Merchant and scholar
Yaqut always joined trade and learning in a single journey: he sold and bought books and goods, met scholars and discovered libraries; his travels were all for trade and for knowledge at once 3.
Connections
- Had participant
- Yaqut al-Hamawi
- Occurred at
- Cairo
- During the reign of
- al-Mustansir bi'llah Mansur ibn al-Zahir
People and things also explored
Al-Qifti shelters Yaqut al-Hamawi at Aleppo, c. 625/1228· Yaqut begins the definitive edition of the Mujam al-Buldan for al-Qifti's library, 21 Muharram 625/1 January 1228· Al-Azhar Mosque· Bab al-Futuh, Cairo· Bab al-Nasr, Cairo· Bab Zuwayla, Cairo· Joseph's Well (Bir Yusuf), Cairo Citadel· Citadel of Cairo (Citadel of Salah al-Din)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 278
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 11 p. 265
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 277
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Yaqut's second journey to Egypt and Damascus for trade, 624/1227”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/yaqut-egypt-624/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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