PERSON

Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb ibn Jaʿfar ibn Wahb ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Kātib al-ʿAbbāsī al-Yaʿqūbī

Name (arabic)

أحمد بن أبي يعقوب بن جعفر بن وهب بن واضح الكاتب العباسي اليعقوبي

Name (translit)

Aḥmad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb ibn Jaʿfar ibn Wahb ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Kātib al-ʿAbbāsī al-Yaʿqūbī

Alias

Aḥmad al-Yaʿqūbī

Flourished

183H/800J

Lived in

Notes

(From MAMS2): Historian and geographer, worked in Armenia and Khurasan.

Number in MAMS

105

ismi_id

99756

Authored Works

2 works:

Geography: Practical

Kitāb al-buldān , كتاب البلدان

OTHER

Tārīkh , تاريخ

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