Yaqut al-Hamawi
Deceased Person
1179 – 1229
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Who was Yaqut al-Hamawi?
Yāqūt ibn-'Abdullah al-Rūmī al-Hamawī was an Islamic biographer and geographer renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world. "al-Rumi" refers to his Greek descent; "al-Hamawi" is taken after Hama, Syria, and ibn-Abdullah is a reference to his father's name, Abdullah. The word yāqūt means ruby or hyacinth.
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