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Irshad al-Arib ila Ma'rifat al-Adib (Mujam al-Udaba')

إرشاد الأريب إلى معرفة الأديب

Yaqut al-Hamawi's dictionary of men of letters, also called Irshad al-Arib ila Ma'rifat al-Adib: the idea came to him in his twentieth year when he met the grammarian Shumaym al-Hilli at Amid in 594/1198, and he kept feeding it from his reading and encounters to the end of his life 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq

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Authored by
Yaqut al-Hamawi

People and things also explored

Al-Qifti shelters Yaqut al-Hamawi at Aleppo, c. 625/1228· The Damascus affair: a debate that nearly cost Yaqut his life, and his flight, 613/1216· Yaqut's second journey to Egypt and Damascus for trade, 624/1227· Yaqut flees Khwarazm before the Mongols to Mosul, then Aleppo, 617/1220· Yaqut manumitted and dismissed by Askar al-Hamawi, 596/1199· Yaqut's flight into Khurasan: Nishapur and its Shadhiyakh, c. 614/1217· A circuit of Khurasan, then Khwarazm in a freezing winter, 616/1219· Yaqut returns from Kish to find his former master dead, and takes to the book trade, 606/1209

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 11 p. 265-266
  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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Al-Qifti shelters Yaqut al-Hamawi at Aleppo, c. 625/1228

Al-Qifti used his influential office to further scholarship: he sheltered at Aleppo Yaqut al-Hamawi, who had fled the Mongols, and gave him much help in the compilation of his great geographical dictionary; this fell within his years over the diwan of finances before his dismissal in 628.