Yaqut

Yaqut (ياقوت), sometimes transliterated Yāḳūt or Yācūt, is the Arabic word for ruby. As a personal name, it may refer to:


 * Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179–1229), Muslim biographer and geographer of Greek origin
 * Yaqut al-Musta'simi (died 1298), calligrapher and secretary of the last Abbasid caliph
 * Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut (ca. 1200–1240), confidante of the first female monarch of the Delhi Sultanate in India