Ya'qubi
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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
.
Mansur
. Until 873 he lived in Armenia
and Khorasan
, working under the patronage of the Iran
ian 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.
Ya'qubi was a Great Sunni scholar,But his Shia sympathies are found throughout his works.
Berber people
Berbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. Historically they spoke the Berber language or varieties of it, which together form a branch...
Muslim geographer
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
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Biography
He was a great-grandson of Wadih, the freedman of the caliphCaliph
The Caliph is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the ruler of the Islamic Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari'ah. It is a transcribed version of the Arabic word which means "successor" or "representative"...
Mansur
Mansur
Mansur is a male Arabic name that means "victorious", from the Arabic root naṣr , meaning "victory."The first known bearer of the name was Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad....
. Until 873 he lived in Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
and Khorasan
Greater Khorasan
Greater Khorasan or Ancient Khorasan is a historical region of Greater Iran mentioned in sources from Sassanid and Islamic eras which "frequently" had a denotation wider than current three provinces of Khorasan in Iran...
, working under the patronage of the Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian dynasty of the Tahirids; then he traveled to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
and the Maghreb
Maghreb
The Maghreb is the region of Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. It includes five countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara...
, where he died in Egypt. He is said to have died in 897 CE.
Ya'qubi was a Great Sunni scholar,But his Shia sympathies are found throughout his works.
Works
- Ta'rikh ibn Wadih (Chronicle of Ibn Wadih)
- Kitab al-BuldanKitab al-BuldanKitab al-Buldan is translated as "Book of Lands" or "Book of Countries" and may refer to one of the following.*Kitab al-Buldan by Al-Yaqubi...
(Book of the Countries) - geography, contains a description of the Maghreb, with a full account of the larger cities and much topographical and political information (ed. M. de Goeje, Leiden, 1892).