- Ya'qubi
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Muslim scholar | era =Islamic golden age | color = #cef2e0 |
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| name = Ahmad ibn Abu Ya'qub ibn Ja'far al-Ya'qubi| title= Ya'qubi| birth = | death = AH|284|898 [ [http://www.ismaili.net/histoire/history03/history337.html Muhammad's successor ] ] or 897 CEEncyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition , a publication now in the public domain] | school tradition= | Ethnicity =
Region = | main_interests = History and geography| notable idea=
works =Ta'rikh ibn Wadih andKitab al-Buldan
influences = | influenced = | Ahmad ibn Abu Ya'qub ibn Ja'far ibn Wahb Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi (? – 897), known as Ya'qubi, was aMuslim historian andgeographer .Biography
He was a great-grandson of
Wadih , the freedman of thecaliph Mansur . Until 873 he lived inArmenia andKhorasan , working under the patronage of theIran ian dynasty of theTahirids ; then he travelled inIndia ,Egypt and theMaghreb , where he died in Sgt. He is said to have died in 897 CE.Works
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Ta'rikh ibn Wadih " ("Chronicle of Ibn Wadih")
*"Kitab al-Buldan " ("Book of the Countries") - geography, contains a description of the Maghreb, with a full account of the larger cities and much topographical and political information (ed.M. de Goeje , Leiden, 1892).ee also
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List of Islamic scholars References
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