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Need for a knowledge of geography is greater than the need of gardens for water after the stars have failed to fulfil their promise of rain.
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History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
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Yaqut al-Hamawi
Born:
1179
Died:
August 27, 1229
(aged 50)
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Yāqūt ibn-'Abdullah al-Rūmī al-Hamawī was an Arab biographer and geographer of Greek origin, renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world.
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