Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Masoud ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Hihi () (fl. ca. 1289) was a Moroccan travel writer. He was born among the
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People
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Places
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, a Berber tribe in the south of
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
. He is the author of ''The Moroccan Journey'' (''Al-Rihlah al-magribiyyah''), an account of his journey to Mecca in 1289, originally entitled ''Rihlat al-Abdari'' (al-Abdari's Journey). It was published by the Ministry of Education (ed. Muhammad al-Fasi, Rabat, 1968).)
The section of the ''al-Rihla al-Maghreibiyya'' describing places in Palestine was copied by
Ibn Juzayy
Abu al-Qasim, Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. 'Abd Allah, Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi al-Gharnati () was an Andalusian Maliki-Ash'ari scholar and poet of Arab origin.
Works
He wrote many religious works such as his ''al-Qawanin al-Fiqhiyyah'' or "T ...
in 1354-1355 when writing an account of the travels of
Ibn Battuta
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah (, ; 24 February 13041368/1369),; fully: ; Arabic: commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Berbers, Berber Maghrebi people, Maghrebi scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia, ...
.
al-Abdari was also the grand Qadi (judge) of
Marrakesh
Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakes ...
.
(He is not to be confused with
Mohammed ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Fasi
Moḥammed ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari al-Fasi (or Mohammed Ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed Abu Abdallah Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari al-Maliki al-Fassi; ar, إبن الحاج العبدري الفاسي) also known simply as Ibn al-Haj or Ibn al-Hajj was a Morocca ...
or Mohammed Ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed Abu Abdallah Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari al-Qayrawani al-Fasi al-Tilamsi, (ca. 1258 - 1336), the author of ''Madkhal Ash-Shara Ash-Shareef Ala Al-Mathahib'', or "Introduction to Islamic Jurisprudence According to Schools of Thought".)
References
*''Abdari, Muhammad ibn Muhammad. Rihlat al-'Abdari / ta'lif Abi 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'ud al-'Abdari'' ; haqqaqaha wa-qaddama la-ha 'Ali Ibrahim Kurdi ; qaddama la-ha Shakir al-Fahham. al-Tab'ah,
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: Dar Sa'd al-Din, 1999. (editor's MA thesis)
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External links
For a biography se
(retrieved September 11, 2008) N.B. This site mistakenly assumes that the two authors are the same.
Moroccan writers
Moroccan travel writers
Berber Moroccans
13th-century Moroccan writers
People from Marrakesh
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13th-century Berber people
Berber writers
13th-century Arabic writers
13th-century Moroccan judges
Travel writers of the medieval Islamic world