Ya'qubi

ʾAbū l-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد بن أبي يعقوب بن جعفر بن وهب بن واضح اليعقوبي‎; died 897/8), commonly referred to simply by his nisba al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab[3][4][5][6] Muslim geographer[7] and perhaps the first historian of world culture in the Abbasid Caliphate.[8]

For the Syrian Islamic scholar, see Muhammad al-Yaqoubi.
ʾAbū l-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī
DiedAH 284 (AD 897–898)[1][2]
OccupationArab writer, traveller and historian
LanguageArabic
PeriodIslamic Golden Age
(Abbasid era)
GenreHistory and geography
Notable worksTa'rikh ibn Wadih and Kitab al-Buldan
Arabic name
Personal
(Ism)		ʾAḥmad
أحمد
Patronymic
(Nasab)		bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ
بن أبي يعقوب بن جعفر بن وهب بن واضح
Teknonymic
(Kunya)		ʾAbū l-ʿAbbās
أبو العباس
Toponymic
(Nisba)		al-Yaʿqūbī
اليعقوبي

Biography

He was born in Baghdad[3] as the great-grandson of Wadih, the freedman of the caliph Al-Mansur. Until 873 he lived in Armenia and Khorasan, working under the patronage of the Tahirids Governors; then he traveled to India, Egypt and the Maghreb,[9] and died in Egypt. He died in AH 284 (897/8).[2]

His sympathies with Ahl al-Bayt[10] are found throughout his works.[11]

In 872, he lists the kingdoms of Bilād as-Sūdān, including Ghana, Gao, and Kanem.[12]

Works
  • Complete works of Ya'qubi: Gordon, Mathew S. and al. (2018). The Works Of Ibn Wāḍiḥ Al Yaʿqūbī. Brill. pp. Vol 1, 2, 3. ISBN 9789004364165.
  • Ta'rikh ibn Wadih (Chronicle of Ibn Wadih)
  • Kitab al-Buldan (Book of the Countries) - biology, 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).[9]
  • Ya'qubi (1861). A. W. T. Juynboll (ed.). Kitab al-Buldan (in Arabic). BRILL.

See also

References
  1. Muhammad's successor
  2. Ya'qubi at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  3. Zaman, Muhammad Qasim (1960–2009). The encyclopaedia of Islam. H. A. R. Gibb, P. J. Bearman (II. ed.). Leiden: Brill. pp. 257–258. ISBN 90-04-16121-X. OCLC 399624.CS1 maint: date format (link)
  4. "Al-Yaʿqūbī | Arab historian and geographer".
  5. "Al Ya'qubi".
  6. https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/al-yaqubi
  7. Thatcher 1911.
  8. Daly, Okasha El (2005). Egyptology : the missing millennium : ancient Egypt in medieval Arabic writings. London: UCL. p. 166. ISBN 1844720632.
  9. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Ya'qūbī". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 904.
  10. Camilla Adang, Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible: From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm, (E.J. Brill, 1996), 37.
  11. Ya'qubi
  12. Levtzion, Nehemia (1973). Ancient Ghana and Mali. New York: Methuen & Co Ltd. p. 3. ISBN 0841904316.
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