Yaqut al-Hamawi
ياقوت الحموي
1179 CE · 575 AH – 1229 CE · 626 AH
A geographer and lexicographer, author of Mu'jam al-Buldan and Mu'jam al-Udaba'.
At a glance
- Roles
- geographer · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Geography and cartographyLiterature
Place in the story
- Traveller and observerTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Abd Allah Yaqut ibn Abd Allah al-Musta'simi al-Rumi, Jamal al-Din al-Hamawi al-Baghdadi. A geographer and lexicographer, author of the "Mu'jam al-Buldan" (Dictionary of Countries) and the "Mu'jam al-Udaba'" (Dictionary of Men of Letters) 1.
Life
The encyclopedia gives his birth as 575 AH and his death as 626 AH 1.
Notes
- The data holds no details of his life. The entry needs an additional source.
People and things also explored
The seven climates· al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Arab naming of children after plants· The earth's sphericity· Joining the Red Sea to the Mediterranean· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Yaqut al-Hamawi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yaqut-al-hamawi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.