Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/19846

An alleged king of the Maghrib and miracle worker

Names

  • Arabic: أبو يعقوب يوسف = Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf 1

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997

Sources

  • 1Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:262, 264 [Arabic].
    • Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 85-7 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/19846.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and gender assignment, matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
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