Yaqut al-Hamawi

• abstract: Yāqūt ibn-'Abdullah al-Rūmī al-Hamawī) (1179–1229) () was an Islamic biographer and geographer renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world. "al-Rumi" ("from Rûm") refers to his Greek (Byzantine) descent; "al-Hamawi" is taken after Hama, Syria, and ibn-Abdullah is a reference to his father's name, Abdullah.

以上来源于: WordNet