ʾAbū al-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī[a] (died 897/8), commonly referred to simply by his
nisbaal-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab[3][4][5][6]Muslimgeographer.[7]
His methodical approach to writing history includes personal observations and interviews to close relations on topics that Yaqubi could not encounter first-hand. He covered on topics of natural, human and economic geography as well as noting down cultural, historical and topographic information.[9]
Kitab al-Buldan (Book of the Countries) - biology, contains a description of the
Maghreb, with a full account of the larger cities and much topographical and political information (ed.
M. de Goeje, Leiden, 1892).[8]
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abcOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "
Ya'qūbī". In
Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 904.