• Look up yaqut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yaqut (Arabic: ياقوت, romanized: Yāqūt), sometimes transliterated Yāḳūt or Yācūt, is the Arabic word...
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  • Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) (Arabic: ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry active during...
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    Jamal ud-Din Yaqut (also Yakut; died 1240) was an African Siddi slave-turned-nobleman who was a close confidant of Razia Sultana, the first and only female...
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    Yaqut al-Musta'simi (Arabic: ياقوت المستعصمي) (died 1298) was a well-known calligrapher and secretary of the last Abbasid caliph. He was probably of Greek...
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    Lane's transcribed spelling. Balhūt is the alternate spelling given in Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. 1229)'s geographic work and copies of Ibn al-Wardi (d. 1348)'s...
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  • Yaqut Khan (died 1775) was an Afghan eunuch to Afghan Emperor Ahmad Shah Durrani during the 18th century. He is known for supporting Timur Shah Durrani...
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  • started relying on an Abyssinian Slave named Jamaluddin Yaqut who was loyal to the Sultana. Yaqut in a short span had acquired great position and rank....
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    Yaqut Cholil Qoumas (born 4 January 1975) is an Indonesian cleric and politician who served as Minister of Religious Affairs under President Joko Widodo...
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    world maps (such as Tabula Rogeriana), while other geographers such as Yaqut al-Hamawi, Abu Rayhan Biruni, Ibn Battuta, and Ibn Khaldun provided detailed...
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  • Lalla Yacout (or Yaqut; Arabic: للا ياقوت; died September 1, 1953) was one of the wives of Sultan Moulay Youssef and the mother of King Mohammed V. Lalla...
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    Hayat Alyaqout (Arabic: حياة الياقوت; born 1981) is a Kuwaiti writer and publisher. She founded Nashiri, considered the first Arabic nonprofit online publishing...
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    Jazīrat al-Jawhar) or Island of Sapphires (Arabic: جزيرة الياقوت Jazīrat al-Yāqūt) was a semi-legendary island in medieval Arabic cartography, said to lie...
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    Rayhani have included analytical study of the technical characteristics of Yaqut al-Musta’simi's method. "معرفی خط ریحان". golestane.net. Retrieved 1 September...
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    translation. The name of the bull is wanting in Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. 1229)'s geography, Mu'jam al-Buldan. Yaqut is thought to have borrowed from al-Tha'labi...
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  • which later came to bear their name (see Wadi Hanifa). Sources such as Yaqut's 13th century encyclopedia credit them with the founding of the towns of...
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  • Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yaqut (Arabic: أبو بكر محمد بن ياقوت) was an official who played a major role in the tumultuous political affairs of the Abbasid...
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  • road presents a challenging and uneven surface between Mecca and Medina". Yaqut al-Hamawi Stated that: "Muhammad traversed the route while undertaking the...
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    ISBN 978-0-306814808. Yāqūt, Shīhab al-Dīn ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥamawī (1907), Margoliouth, D. S. (ed.), Irshād al-Arīb alā Ma'rifat al-Adīb (Yāqūt's Dictionary of...
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    Malik-i Kabir Ikhtiyaruddin Aitigin as Amir-i Hajib and Malik Jamaluddin Yaqut as Amir-i Akhur. Minhaj mentions that soon, all the nobles from Lakhnauti...
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  • was known, transmitted as quotations in the geographical dictionary of Yāqūt (under the headings Atil, Bashgird, Bulghār, Khazar, Khwārizm, Rūs), published...
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    El Aaraj, who was said to perform miracles. Another notable figure was Yaqut al-'Arshi, a disciple of Abu Abbas El Mursi. Ibn Battuta also writes about...
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    and the 12th- and 13th-century Arab chroniclers, Muhammad al-Idrisi and Yaqut al-Hamawi. Nasir-i-Khusrau visited in 1047; he noted that "Haifa lies on...
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    at the Wayback Machine Sela' (Medina) citations at Book Mujam Buldan by Yaqut Hamwi, Volume I: pages 5,1,5.145.237.432.663.671 Volume ii:pages ,32.111...
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    during the Delhi Sultanate period, recorded the city's name as Lāhanūr. Yaqut al-Hamawi records the city's name as Lawhūr, mentioning that it was famously...
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    engineering in the ancient world.[citation needed] The medieval Arab geographer Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī describes it thus: It is between three mountains, and the flood...
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  • and philologist attached to a son of the Caliph al-Mu‘tazz at Baghdād. Yāqūt calls him Sa‘ūrā’. Shāmī (al-), Abū Muhammad ‘Abd Allāh (‘the Syrian’) -...
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  • Yaqut Khan as Thanedar or admiral of Danda Rajpuri island. For his services, Yaqut Khan has acquired one-third of the revenues from Surat city. Yaqut...
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  • Dodge, Chap. III, sect. 2, near n. 12. Yāqūt 1965, p. 137, Irshād, VI (7). Khallikān (Ibn) 1868, p. 31, III. Yāqūt 1965, p. 137, line 15, Irshād, VI (7)...
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    officials. To make the deception more believable, Ahmad Shah's chief eunuch, Yaqut Khan had brought food for the "Sick" Ruler. Shah wali Khan had then notified...
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    century until 1262 with the death of al-Ashraf Musa. In 1225, Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi mentioned that Homs was large, celebrated and walled, having a...
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