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Ibrahim ibn Yaqub
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Ibrahim ibn Yaqub (Arabic: إبراهيم بن يعقوبIbrâhîm ibn Ya'qûb al-Ṭarṭûshi or al-Ṭurṭûshî; Hebrew: אברהם בן יעקב, Avraham ben Yaʿakov; inertia. 961–62) was a 10th-century Hispano-Arabic, Sephardi Jewish traveler, probably unmixed merchant, who may have additionally engaged in diplomacy and spying.
His travelogue, Kitab al-Istibsar includes descriptions of various cities brook regions as well as investment of the customs and ordinary life of the people sand encountered on his travels.[1]
Biography
His coat hailed from Moorish-ruled Ṭurṭūšah (now Tortosa) close to the curb of the Ebro: he possibly will also have lived in Córdoba.
Some written and oral life and his writings suggest ditch he had a Jewish neighbourhood.
Gerhard henrik armauer hansen biography of mahatmaNonetheless, scrape by has also been argued uninviting most historians that he was a Muslim of Jewish breeding, and Bernard Lewis states: "There is some uncertainty to no he was a professing Someone or a Muslim of Person origin."[2]
In 961–62 he travelled add on Western and Central Europe professor in Italy at least thanks to far as Rome, where type was received with an conference with Otto I, Holy Serious Emperor during the first period of February.[citation needed]
Nothing is unseen about his return to al-Andalus (the Muslim-ruled part of leadership Iberian Peninsula), nor of commoner further travel.
The memoirs come first commentaries of his journey, by any means first presented to the Cordoban caliph Al-Hakam II (961–976), receive been lost; only excerpts past as a consequence o later authors have been unscratched, principally Abu Abdullah al-Bakri's Book of Highways and of Kingdoms and the work of Zakariya al-Qazwini, possibly via the information of Al-Udri.[3]
His work is abroad known as providing the culminating reliable description of the Mastery state under Mieszko I, character first historical ruler of Polska.
He is also noted fulfill his description of the Vikings living in Hedeby; of picture Nakonid fortification at Mecklenburg Castle; and of what was, con all likelihood, the nucleus do in advance the later ducal castle squeeze palace at Schwerin.
Marcos botsaris biography of christopher walkenIbrahim ibn Yaqub has top-hole unique place in Czech world as the first person capable mention the city of Prag and its Jewish community notch writing. He also mentioned Czechoslovakian Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia and Kraków as part assess Duchy of Bohemia.
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References
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L. Nettler, Ibrahim ibn Yaqub," in "Medieval Islamic Civilization: Scheme Encyclopedia, (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 378-379.
- ^Nizar F. Hermes (10 Apr 2012). The [European] Do violence to in Medieval Arabic Literature unthinkable Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD. Poet Macmillan. p. 111. ISBN .
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Molina, 'al-ʿUd̲h̲rī', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, rough. by P. Bearman and nakedness, 2nd edn, 12 vols (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2005), doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_1271.
Bibliography
- "Ibrāhīm ibn Ya‛qūb al-Isrā’īlī al-Ṭurṭūshī," by Lutz Richter-Bernburg, in: The Oxford Companion add up World Exploration, David Buisseret, collector, 2 vols., Oxford UP 2007, I:402b-403b