At a glance
- Roles
- geographer · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Geography and cartographyLiterature
Place in the story
- Traveller and observerTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Abd Allah Yaqut ibn Abd Allah al-Musta'simi al-Rumi, Jamal al-Din al-Hamawi al-Baghdadi. A geographer and lexicographer, author of the "Mu'jam al-Buldan" (Dictionary of Countries) and the "Mu'jam al-Udaba'" (Dictionary of Men of Letters) 2.
Life
The encyclopedia gives his birth as 575 AH and his death as 626 AH 2.
Notes
- The data holds no details of his life. The entry needs an additional source.
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Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 121-122
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Yaqut al-Hamawi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yaqut-al-hamawi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.