See also:

• YAKUT, or YAKUT (Yaqut ibn 'Abdallah ur-Rumi) (1179-1229)

YAKUT, or YAKUT (Yaqut See also:

• IBN

ibn 'Abdallah ur-See also:

• RUMI, (1207-1273)

Rumi) (1179-1229)  , Arab geographer and biographer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• GREECE

Greece of See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek parentage, but in his boyhood became the slave of a See also:

• MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant of See also:

• HAMAH

Hamah (Hamath), who trained him for commercial travelling and sent him two or three times to See also:

• KISH, or KAIS (the first form is Persian and the second Arabic)

Kish in the See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian Gulf (on his journeys, cf . F . Wustenfeld, " Jacut's Reisen " in the Zeitschr. d. dsntsch. morg . Gesellschaft, vol. xviii. pp . 397-493) . In 1194 he quarrelled with his See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master and had to support himself by copying; he took See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage of the opportunity of studying under the grammarian al-'Ukbari . After five years he returned to his old master and again travelled for him to Kish, but on his return found his master dead, and set up for himself as a bookseller and began to write . During the next ten years he travelled in See also:

• PERSIA

Persia, See also:

• SYRIA

Syria, See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt and visited See also:

• MERV, MERU

Merv, See also:

• BALKH

Balkh, See also:

• MOSUL

Mosul and See also:

• ALEPPO (native Haleb)

Aleppo . About 1222 he settled in Mosul and worked on his See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography, the first draft of which was ready in 1224 . After a See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey to See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria in 1227 he went to Aleppo, where he died in 1229 . In his large geography, the Mu`jam ul-Bulddn (ed . F .

Wustenfeld, 6 vols., See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1866-73), the places mentioned in the literature or the stories of the See also:

• ARABS

Arabs are given in alphabetical See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order, with the correct vocalization of the names, an indication whether they are Arabic or See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign and their locality . Their See also:

• HISTORY

history is often sketched with a See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of their See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest by the Moslems and the name of the See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time is recorded . See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

Attention is also given to the monuments they contain and the celebrities who were born inthem or had lived there . In this way a quantity of old literature, both See also:

• PROSE

prose and See also:

• POETRY

poetry, is preserved by Yaqut . The parts of this See also:

• WORK

work See also:

• RELATING

relating to Persia have been extracted and translated by See also:

• BARBIER, ANTOINE ALEXANDRE (1765–1825)
• BARBIER, HENRI AUGUSTE (1805-1882)
• BARBIER, LOUIS

Barbier de Meynard under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Dictionnaire geographique, historique et littiraire de la Terse (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1871) . Some account of its See also:

• SOURCES

sources is given in F . J . Heer's See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die historischen and geographischen Quellen in Jacut's geographischem Worterbuch (See also:

• STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg, 1898), and the material relating to the See also:

• CRUSADES

Crusades is treated by H . See also:

• DERENBOURG, JOSEPH (1811-1895)

Derenbourg, " See also:

• LES

Les Croisades d'apres le dictionnaire geographique de Jacout " in the See also:

• VOLUME

volume of the Cen;enaire de l'icole See also:

• DES

des langues orientales vivantes, 71-92 . A See also:

• DIGEST

digest of the whole work was made by See also:

• IBN

Ibn 'Abdulhaqq (d . 1338) under the title See also:

• MARA, GERTRUD ELISABETH (1749-1833)

Mara.id ul-Ittila (ed . T .

G . J . Juynboli, See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden, 1850-1864) . Yaqui also wrote a See also:

• DICTIONARY

dictionary of See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical homonyms, the Mushtarik (ed . F . Wustenfeld, See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, 1846) . Besides all this activity in geography Yaqut gave his attention to See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography, and wrote an important dictionary of learned men, the Mu'am ul-Udaba' . Parts of this work exist in MS. in different See also:

• LIBRARIES

libraries; vol. i. has been edited by D . S . Margoliouth, Irshad al-A See also:

• RIB (from 0. Eng. ribb; the word appears' in many Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Rippe, Swed. reb)

rib Il a Ma'rifat at Adib (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1908) . (G . W .