At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
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Summary
Ten waqf repositories
In the Mujam he wrote: 'Had not the Tatars arrived and ruined those lands I would never have left it for all my life, for the kindness, gentleness and good company of its people and the wealth of reliable source books — I left it while it held ten waqf repositories whose like in quantity and quality I never saw in the world' 1. Among them were the libraries of the al-Sam'ani family, Sharaf al-Malik al-Mustawfi, Nizam al-Malik Muhammad b. Ishaq, the vizier Majd al-Malik, and the Amidiyya, Aziziyya, Khatuniyya, Kamaliyya and Damriyya foundations 3.
Connections
- Had participant
- Yaqut al-Hamawi· ابن السمعاني
- Occurred at
- Merv
People and things also explored
Ibn al-Salah gathers the science of hadith in Khurasan: Nishapur and Marw, c. 605· Al-Sam'ani returns to Marw, marries, and his son 'Abd al-Rahim is born, 538/1143· al-Sam'ani· ابن السمعاني· Yaqut al-Hamawi· Abu Muslim Enters Marw and His Partisans Fall upon Mudar· Battle of Dandanqan (1040)· Battle of Merv
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 278
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 11 p. 265
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 11 p. 264
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islam.museum contributors. “Three years among the waqf libraries of Marw, and the idea of the Mujam al-Buldan, 615/1218”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/yaqut-merv-615/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-02.