Yaqout Al-Rumi

Yaqout ibn Abdullah Al-Rumi Al-Hamawi , known as Yaqout Al-Rumi , born in 1179 and deceased in 1229, is a Biographe and a Géographe Syria N. Name “Al-Rumi” (Of the country of Roums) is a reference to its Greek relationship while “Al-Hamawi” means that it is originating in Hama (Syria) and that “ibn Abdullah” means that his/her father was called Abdullah.

It receives from its Master, a merchant of Baghdad, a complete education. Yaqout devotes most of its life to its voyages in Arabia, in Syria, in Egypt and with the Khorassan, in particular with Merv, where it remains little of time before the Mongolian invasion . It acquires a great fame for its encyclopedic writings dedicated to the Muslim world. Its principal works are the Mu `jam Al `Udabâ (Dictionary of educated people), written in 1226, as well as the Kitab driven `jam Al-buldan (Book of the Countries) completed in 1228. In this last work, ordered by Toponym S, it makes an analysis very documented for the time on the history plans and sociological.

It also writes Al-Mushtarak wadh `has wa Al-Muftaraq Its `qa (rear RTL المشترکوضعاوالمفترقصعقا) whose version is printed in 1845 by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld.

The work of Yaqout will influence its successors and in particular Al-Qazwini which will take as a starting point the Book of the countries to write its own geography.

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