At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
The frozen inkwell
He reached Jurjaniyya in the bitterest cold and tried to write and compose, but could not. He says: 'I strove to write something there, but the frozen inkwell would not let me until I brought it near the fire and thawed it; and when I brought the drinking cup near my lips it stuck to them, frozen' 2.
Connections
- Had participant
- Yaqut al-Hamawi
- Occurred at
- Khwarizm
People and things also explored
death of Khwarazmshah Tekish· Khwarazm conflict (1378–1379)· Khwarazmshah takes Transoxiana and restores Khurasan· Khwarizm's King Summoning Qutayba against his Brother· Qutayba's Settlement of Khwarizm· Al-Qifti shelters Yaqut al-Hamawi at Aleppo, c. 625/1228· Al-Sam'ani's first great hadith journey, 529-538/1135-1143· Shihab al-Din's siege of Khwarazm and his defeat by the Khita
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 11 p. 265
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 278
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “A circuit of Khurasan, then Khwarazm in a freezing winter, 616/1219”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/yaqut-khwarazm-616/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-02.
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