Ya'qubi

Muslim scholar
Ahmad ibn Abu Ya'qub ibn Ja'far al-Ya'qubi
Title Ya'qubi
Died 284 AH (898) [1] or 897 CE [2]
Main interests History and geography
Works Ta'rikh ibn Wadih and Kitab al-Buldan

Ahmad ibn Abu Ya'qub ibn Ja'far ibn Wahb Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi (died 897), known as Ahmad al-Ya'qubi, or Ya'qubi, was a Berber Muslim geographer.[2]

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Biography

He was a great-grandson of Wadih, the freedman of the caliph Mansur. Until 873 he lived in Armenia and Khorasan, working under the patronage of the Iranian dynasty of the Tahirids; then he traveled to India, Egypt and the Maghreb, where he died in Egypt. He is said to have died in 897 CE.[2]

Ya'qubi was a Great Sunni scholar,But his Shia sympathies are found throughout his works.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Muhammad's successor
  2. ^ a b c d e Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain
  3. ^ Ya'qubi

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Geographers
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Schools

Balkhi school • Iraqi school
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