Al-Yaqubi

Ahmad ibn Abu Ya'qub ibn Ja'far al-Ya'qubi
Title	Ya'qubi
Died	AH 284 (AD 897-898)
Era	Islamic golden age
Religion	Islam
Main interest(s)	History and geography
Notable work(s)	Ta'rikh ibn Wadih and Kitab al-Buldan

Ahmad ibn Abu Ya'qub ibn Ja'far ibn Wahb Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi (died 897/8), known as Ahmad al-Ya'qubi, or Ya'qubi, was a Muslim geographer and perhaps the first historian of world culture in the Abbasid Caliphate.

He was a great-grandson of Wadih, the freedman of the caliph Mansur. Until 873 he lived in Armenia and Khorasan, working under the patronage of the Iranian dynasty of the Tahirids; then he traveled to India, Egypt and the Maghreb, and died in Egypt. He died in AH 284 (897/8).

His Shia sympathies are found throughout his works.

In 872, he lists the kingdoms of Bilad el-Sudan, including Ghana, Gao, and Kanem.

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