Ya'qub
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Yaʿqūb also transliterated as Yaqoob, Yaghoub and Yaqoub, is the Arabic
version of the name Jacob
. Ya'qub is a common name in the Muslim world and may refer to the following:
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
version of the name Jacob
Jacob
Jacob "heel" or "leg-puller"), also later known as Israel , as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur'an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants.In the...
. Ya'qub is a common name in the Muslim world and may refer to the following:
- Islamic view of Jacob
Historical persons
- Ya'qub-i Laith Saffari
- Ya'qub al-Mansur
- Yaqub Bek
- Yaqub ibn KillisYaqub ibn KillisYaqub ibn Killis , was an Egyptian Vizier under the Fatimids .Yaqub ibn Yusuf ibn Killis was born in Baghdad in 930 in a Jewish family. After his family moved to Syria he came to Egypt in 943 and entered the service of the Regent Kafur. Soon he controlled the Egyptian state finances in his...
- Yaqūb ibn TāriqYaqub ibn TariqYaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq was an 8th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician who lived in Baghdad.- Works :Works ascribed to Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq include:...
- Yaqub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari