Yaqut manumitted and dismissed by Askar al-Hamawi, 596/1199

عتق ياقوت عن عسكر الحموي ونفيه عنه، ٥٩٦هـ/١١٩٩م

c. 1199 CE · 596 AH

Baghdad

A quarrel obliged Askar to emancipate Yaqut and send him away in 596/1199-1200 1 2. He became a copyist for hire — between 596 and 603 he copied three hundred mujallads — and reading brought him profit of another kind 1 2; his former master later relented and took him back as a mudaraba partner 1 3.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

In time

119012001210 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

In space

Baghdad

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Summary

In 596/1199-1200 a falling-out obliged Askar to emancipate Yaqut and part with him 2 1.

A copyist for hire

Yaqut earned his living copying: between 596 and 603 he transcribed three hundred mujallads, and wide reading brought him further gains. His former master afterwards relented, gave him goods and made him a mudaraba partner 2 1 3.

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

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The child Yaqut sold in Baghdad to the merchant Askar al-Hamawi, c. 580/1184· Burning of the Books of Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani and His Condemnation as a Fasiq in 603· Civil disturbances in Baghdad· the caliph army routed by Sultan Tughril· Death of caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah· death of Ibn al-Jawzi — Ramadan 597· Death of caliph al-Nasir's son· death of al-Mustaḍīʾ — the forty-seven-year caliphate of al-Nāṣir begins

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. 264
  3. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 277
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The child Yaqut sold in Baghdad to the merchant Askar al-Hamawi, c. 580/1184

Taken captive while still very young in Byzantine territory, Yaqut was carried to Baghdad at the age of five or six and bought by the barely literate merchant Askar ibn al-Nasr al-Hamawi, who named him Yaqut — the customary gemstone name for a mawla — and gave him a Qur'anic schooling so he could serve the business; among his later teachers were Abu al-Baqa' al-Ukbari and Ibn Ya'ish.