Yaqut's second journey to Egypt and Damascus for trade, 624/1227

رحلة ياقوت الثانية إلى مصر ودمشق بالتجارة، ٦٢٤هـ/١٢٢٧م

1227 CE · 624 AH

Cairo

Under al-Qifti's patronage at Aleppo Yaqut amassed considerable funds, and travelled to Egypt with a cargo of raw cloth, returning with another cargo that brought him profit 1. This was his second Aleppo–Egypt–Damascus journey, in 624/1227 2.

Depth

At a glance

Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq

In time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Cairo

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Summary

Yaqut travelled to Egypt with a cargo of raw cloth and returned with another cargo that brought him profit — his second Aleppo–Egypt–Damascus journey, in 624/1227 1. 2

Merchant and scholar

Yaqut always joined trade and learning in a single journey: he sold and bought books and goods, met scholars and discovered libraries; his travels were all for trade and for knowledge at once 3.

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Had participant
Yaqut al-Hamawi
Occurred at
Cairo
During the reign of
al-Mustansir bi'llah Mansur ibn al-Zahir

People and things also explored

Al-Qifti shelters Yaqut al-Hamawi at Aleppo, c. 625/1228· Yaqut begins the definitive edition of the Mujam al-Buldan for al-Qifti's library, 21 Muharram 625/1 January 1228· Al-Azhar Mosque· Bab al-Futuh, Cairo· Bab al-Nasr, Cairo· Bab Zuwayla, Cairo· Joseph's Well (Bir Yusuf), Cairo Citadel· Citadel of Cairo (Citadel of Salah al-Din)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 278
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 11 p. 265
  3. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 277
  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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Al-Qifti shelters Yaqut al-Hamawi at Aleppo, c. 625/1228

Al-Qifti used his influential office to further scholarship: he sheltered at Aleppo Yaqut al-Hamawi, who had fled the Mongols, and gave him much help in the compilation of his great geographical dictionary; this fell within his years over the diwan of finances before his dismissal in 628.