At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Anatolia · Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Taken captive in Byzantine territory while still very small, Yaqut was carried to Baghdad at five or six and bought by the merchant Askar ibn al-Nasr al-Hamawi, who died in 606 1.
At the kuttab
Connections
- Had participant
- Yaqut al-Hamawi
- Occurred at
- Baghdad
- During the reign of
- al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'
People and things also explored
Yaqut manumitted and dismissed by Askar al-Hamawi, 596/1199· 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
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 11 p. 264
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 121
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 277
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The child Yaqut sold in Baghdad to the merchant Askar al-Hamawi, c. 580/1184”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/yaqut-sold-baghdad-580/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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