At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Books for capital
Connections
- Had participant
- Yaqut al-Hamawi
- Occurred at
- Kish
- During the reign of
- al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'
People and things also explored
Yaqut's trading journeys for his master: Kish, Oman and Syria, c. 593/1197· The Damascus affair: a debate that nearly cost Yaqut his life, and his flight, 613/1216· Yaqut flees Khwarazm before the Mongols to Mosul, then Aleppo, 617/1220· Yaqut manumitted and dismissed by Askar al-Hamawi, 596/1199· The draft of the Mujam al-Buldan finished at Aleppo, 20 Safar 621/13 March 1224· Yaqut presented to the vizier al-Qadi al-Akram al-Qifti at Aleppo, 609/1212· The child Yaqut sold in Baghdad to the merchant Askar al-Hamawi, c. 580/1184· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 121
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 11 p. 264
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 277
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islam.museum contributors. “Yaqut returns from Kish to find his former master dead, and takes to the book trade, 606/1209”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/yaqut-kish-return-606/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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