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Yaqut flees Khwarazm before the Mongols to Mosul, then Aleppo, 617/1220

انهزام ياقوت من خوارزم أمام التتر إلى الموصل ثم حلب، ٦١٧هـ/١٢٢٠م

1220 CE · 617 AH

Mosul

At Khwarazm Yaqut met the Mongol outbreak and fled 'like one raised from his grave on the Day of Resurrection', suffering on the way hardships that tire the tongue to describe; he reached Mosul with his means exhausted 1. From Mosul in 617/1220 — or 618 — he wrote al-Qifti a letter describing his distress at the Mongol advance, then moved to Sinjar and on to Aleppo 2 3.

Depth

At a glance

Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia · Levant & Iraq

In time

121012201230
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Mosul

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

Summary

Yaqut's stay in Khwarazm was short: the Mongols attacked and he fled leaving all he had, escaping 'like one raised from his grave on the Day of Resurrection', suffering hardships on the road that tire the tongue to describe 1 3.

The Mosul letter

He reached Irbil in 617 but could not settle; he went on to Mosul with his means exhausted and from there wrote al-Qifti a letter telling his story and asking leave to come to him — in it he describes his distress at the Mongol advance — then travelled to Sinjar and on to Aleppo 2 3.

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Had participant
Yaqut al-Hamawi
Occurred at
Mosul
During the reign of
al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'

People and things also explored

death of the atabeg Izz al-Din Masud of Mosul· Death of Nur al-Din Arslan Shah of Mosul· Muzaffar al-Din of Irbil besieges Mosul· Ibn al-Salah studies fiqh under his father at Shahrazur, then repeats for Ibn Yunus at Mosul, c. 590· Badr al-Din Lu'lu' seizes Mosul, 621· Nur al-Din Arslan Shah of Mosul defeated by al-Adil's armies· Salah al-Din's siege of Mosul and the settlement of Shahrazur in 581· the Mosul truce — Saladin and the atabeg Izz al-Din Masud

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 121
  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. 278
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