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  "en": "Al-Ya'qubi — English Wikipedia"
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  "ar": "مقالة ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية عن اليعقوبي، المؤرخ والجغرافي العباسي صاحب «تاريخ اليعقوبي» و«كتاب البلدان»؛ مبنية على دراسة بريل 2018 لسيرة ابن واضح، وتقرر وفاته في مصر بعد سنة 908 بقليل، وتوثق الجدل العلمي حول هويته المذهبية.",
  "en": "English Wikipedia article on al-Ya'qubi, the Abbasid historian and geographer of the Ta'rikh and the Kitab al-Buldan; rebuilt on the Brill 2018 biographical sketch, it dates his death in Egypt to shortly after 908 and documents the scholarly debate over his sectarian identity in full."
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  "title": "Al-Ya'qubi",
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  "issued": {
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     2026,
     10,
     18
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  "publisher": "Wikipedia (English), revision 1380906264 of 18 October 2026",
  "URL": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ya%27qubi",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Read in full (text and wikitext) on 1 November 2026. The article rests on the current state of the art: Sean W. Anthony's biographical sketch in the Brill edition The Works of Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi (2018), Anthony's 2016 journal study 'Was Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi a Shi'ite Historian?', Elton L. Daniel's 2004 reconsideration, and Muhammad Qasim Zaman's Encyclopaedia of Islam entry. It gives no birth date: specific dates for his early life are unrecorded and modern historians estimate his birth between 230 and 240 AH (844-854 CE), so the museum queue's 812 is attested nowhere in it. Its lead and infobox still carry the traditional death date of 284 AH (897-898), but its Death section shows, after Anthony, that this date is an erroneous conflation with the contemporary hadith scholar Ahmad ibn Ishaq al-Assal (d. Safar 284 AH): al-Ya'qubi's own verses prove he survived the fall of the Tulunids in 292 AH (905) and the death of al-Muktafi in 295 AH (908), and he is believed to have died in Egypt shortly after 908. Its sectarian-identity section preserves every scholarly reading, from de Goeje's 'full-blooded Shi'ite' and the Waqifa hypothesis to Daniel's Hashimi-loyalist rebuttal and Anthony's Rafidi finding; no single branch commands the field.",
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 "updated": "2026-11-03",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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