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Khashkhash ibn Saeed ibn Aswad ( ar, خَشْخَاش ٱبْن سَعِيد ٱبْن أَسْوَد, '; born in 
Ali al-Masudi, in his historical account ''
Pechina
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, Andalusia
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) was a Moorish navigator of Islamic Iberia
Al-Andalus translit. ; an, al-Andalus; ast, al-Ándalus; eu, al-Andalus; ber, ⴰⵏⴷⴰⵍⵓⵙ, label=Berber, translit=Andalus; ca, al-Àndalus; gl, al-Andalus; oc, Al Andalús; pt, al-Ândalus; es, al-Ándalus () was the Mus ...
.
According to Muslim
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historian Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Mas'udi (871-957), Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad sailed over the Atlantic Ocean
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and discovered a previously unknown land (', ). In his book ''The Meadows of Gold
''Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems'' ( ar, مُرُوج ٱلذَّهَب وَمَعَادِن ٱلْجَوْهَر, ') is a book of history in Arabic of the beginning of the world starting with Adam and Eve up to and through the late Abbasid Cal ...
'', al-Mas'udi writes that Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad, from Delba (Palos de la Frontera
Palos de la Frontera () is a town and municipality located in the southwestern Spanish province of Huelva, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is situated some from the provincial capital, Huelva. According to the 2015 census, the city ...
) sailed into the Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...
in 889 and returned with a shipload of valuable treasures.
Ali al-Masudi, in his historical account ''The Meadows of Gold
''Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems'' ( ar, مُرُوج ٱلذَّهَب وَمَعَادِن ٱلْجَوْهَر, ') is a book of history in Arabic of the beginning of the world starting with Adam and Eve up to and through the late Abbasid Cal ...
'' (947 CE), wrote:
The same passage, in Aloys Sprenger
Aloys Sprenger (born 3 September 1813, in Nassereith, Tyrol; died 19 December 1893 in Heidelberg) was an Austrian Oritentalist.
Sprenger studied medicine, natural sciences as well as oriental languages at the University of Vienna. In 1836 he mov ...
's 1841 English translation, is interpreted by some authors to imply that Ali al-Masudi regarded the story of Khoshkhash to be a fanciful tale:
See also
*Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact
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References
Bibliography
* Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masu'di (Masoudi) (ca. 895?-957 CE),The Book of Golden Meadows, c. 940 CE {{DEFAULTSORT:Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad 9th-century births Year of death missing Admirals Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact Geographers of the medieval Islamic world Scholars of Al-Andalus 10th-century geographers Al-Andalus military personnel 10th-century explorers 10th-century Al-Andalus writers