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
In 609/1212 the book agent Abu Ali al-Qilawi brought Yaqut before the Qadi al-Akram Ibn al-Kifti (al-Qifti), vizier of Aleppo, carrying the books he had collected 1. It was a cool first meeting, yet al-Qifti later became Yaqut's greatest patron.
Al-Qifti's testimony
In the Inbah al-Ruwat al-Qifti writes of this meeting: 'There were but two books in them that I bought from him; I studied his looks and his talk, divined things in him that my intuition did not belie, and knew he was not fit for company' 1. Yaqut was then on his great circuit Baghdad–Syria–Tabriz–Baghdad, 607-10/1210-13 2.
Connections
- Had participant
- Yaqut al-Hamawi· al-Qadi al-Akram al-Qifti
- Occurred at
- Aleppo
- During the reign of
- al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'
People and things also explored
Al-Qifti leaves Jerusalem for Aleppo, 598/1201· Al-Malik al-Zahir puts al-Qifti over Aleppo's diwan of finances, c. 606/1210· Al-Malik al-Aziz reappoints al-Qifti over the diwan of finances, 616/1219· Al-Qifti resigns on al-Malik al-Zahir's death, 613/1216· Al-Qifti shelters Yaqut al-Hamawi at Aleppo, c. 625/1228· The draft of the Mujam al-Buldan finished at Aleppo, 20 Safar 621/13 March 1224· Aleppo· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 277
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 11 p. 265
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Yaqut presented to the vizier al-Qadi al-Akram al-Qifti at Aleppo, 609/1212”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/yaqut-qifti-meeting-609/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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