This article is about the Afghan eunuch Yaqut Khan. For the 18th century Mughal admiral and administrator, see Yakut Khan.
Yaqut Khan
Died
January 1775
Employer
Durrani Empire
Known for
Afghan eunuch
Yaqut Khan (died 1775) was an Afghan eunuch to Afghan Emperor Ahmad Shah Durrani during the 18th century. He is known for supporting Timur Shah Durrani during his conflict with his elder brother, Sulaiman. He later attempted in a conspiracy to assassinate Timur Shah, which failed, resulting in his own execution.
YaqutKhan (died 1775) was an Afghan eunuch to Afghan Emperor Ahmad Shah Durrani during the 18th century. He is known for supporting Timur Shah Durrani...
Khan as Thanedar or admiral of Danda Rajpuri island. For his services, YaqutKhan has acquired one-third of the revenues from Surat city. YaqutKhan were...
noblemen and soldiers, including Ambar Khan, YaqutKhan, and Musa Khan, were assigned to serve under Afzal Khan's leadership. This appointment marked a...
1703 Kasim Yakut Khan II (d. 1703) 1703 - 1707 Amabat YaqutKhan II 1707 - 1732 Surur Yakut Khan II (d. 1732) 1732 - 1734 Hasan Khan (1st time) (d. 1746)...
more believable, Ahmad Shah's chief eunuch, YaqutKhan had brought food for the "Sick" Ruler. Shah wali Khan had then notified Sulaiman that Ahmad Shah...
which later came to bear their name (see Wadi Hanifa). Sources such as Yaqut's 13th century encyclopedia credit them with the founding of the towns of...
own vessels were captured. One of Gilani's officers, an Abyssinian named Yaqut, is said by Firishta to have attacked Mahim, near Bombay, with a fleet of...
started relying on an Abyssinian Slave named Jamaluddin Yaqut who was loyal to the Sultana. Yaqut in a short span had acquired great position and rank....
According to British historian William Dalrymple’s accounts, a senior eunuch, Yaqut, in Qutb Shah’s court was asleep, when a man in green robes appeared in...
(Chorasmía) and Χορασίμα (Chorasíma) by Herodotus. The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in his Muʿǧam al-Buldan wrote that the name was a Persian compound...
these hadiths and considered them among Isra'iliyat. In Mu'jam al-buldan, Yaqut al-Hamawi mentioned a grave for Ilyas in Baalbek. A shrine was later built...
Ahmad attribute Razia's intimacy with Yaqut as a major cause of her downfall. In 1238–1239, Malik Izudin Kabir Khan Ayaz – the governor of Lahore – rebelled...
(now Tell Rafah), while the main city was inland. In 1226, Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi writes of Rafah's former importance in the early Arab period,...
21:21 with Ishmael and the Ishmaelites is affirmed by the Muslim geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi who writes "Faran, an arabized Hebrew word, one of the names of...
Urganch or Gurganj. A prominent Middle Eastern biographer and geographer, Yaqut al-Hamawi, who visited Gurganj in 1219, wrote, "I have not seen a city greater...
was known, transmitted as quotations in the geographical dictionary of Yāqūt (under the headings Atil, Bashgird, Bulghār, Khazar, Khwārizm, Rūs), published...
Akkadian and either Balad or Balaṭ in Syriac and medieval Arabic. According to Yaqut al-Hamawi, Balad was known as Shahrābādh in Sasanian times. (He also mentioned...
these people were noted for their talents and education." Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi counted as many as 10 giant libraries in Merv, including one within...
such as Vincent Smith, he was killed by his son Juna Khan, who then assumed power in 1325. Juna Khan renamed himself as Muhammad bin Tughlaq and ruled for...
of 91,515 people in 23,468 households. According to the Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi, the name of the city is derived from the famous figure of Shahnameh...
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