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Abu Hamid al-Gharnati

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Norris, H. T. (1994). "From Asia to Africa: The 'Tuḥfat al-Albāb' by Abū Ḥāmid al-Gharnāṭī (473/1080-565/1169) as a Source for the Chronology and Content of the 'Sīrat 'Antar B. Shaddād'".
174: 138: 169: 47:), and established a genre of books of wonder in Arabic. Many of the things he saw and wrote about were embellished with fantastic details. 66:. He moved through Kiev to Baghdad in 1154 and lived in Mosul from 1161, Aleppo from 1165, and finally Damascus from 1169. 54:. He travelled from Iberia to Egypt and Syria in 1106, reaching Alexandria in 1115 via Sardinia and Sicily, writing about 164: 31:
who travelled around eastern and central Europe, and wrote about his travels in an Arabic travelogue,
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from 1131 to 1150 and travelled to Hungary, where he worked as an advisor in the court of King
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Al-Gharnati's family is thought to have fled Granada to escape the reign of the Almoravid emir
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Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Sulayman ibn Rabi al-Māzinī al-Qaysi
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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by Ingrid Bejarano Escanilla (2015) from Aramco World 66(2).
58:. He moved to Baghdad in 1123. He lived with the 146: 45:Praise of Some of the Wonders of North Africa 175:Travel writers of the medieval Islamic world 147: 82: 170:12th-century writers from al-Andalus 13: 41:Mu’rib ‘an ba’d ‘aja’ib al-Maghreb 14: 186: 123: 139:Travelers of Al-Andalus. Part 2 76: 1: 69: 7: 10: 191: 97:10.1017/S0041977X00028214 23:; c. 1080 – 1170) was an 165:12th-century explorers 17:Abu Hamid al-Gharnati 130:Scanned version of 52:Yusuf ibn Tashfin 182: 117: 116: 80: 60:Volga Bulgarians 190: 189: 185: 184: 183: 181: 180: 179: 145: 144: 132:Tuhfat al-albab 126: 121: 120: 81: 77: 72: 33:Tuhfat al-Albab 27:traveller from 12: 11: 5: 188: 178: 177: 172: 167: 162: 157: 143: 142: 136: 125: 124:External links 122: 119: 118: 91:(1): 174–183. 74: 73: 71: 68: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 187: 176: 173: 171: 168: 166: 163: 161: 158: 156: 153: 152: 150: 140: 137: 135: 133: 128: 127: 114: 110: 106: 102: 98: 94: 90: 86: 79: 75: 67: 65: 61: 57: 53: 48: 46: 42: 38: 34: 30: 26: 22: 18: 155:1080s births 131: 88: 84: 78: 49: 44: 40: 36: 32: 20: 19:(full name: 16: 15: 160:1170 deaths 134:(in Arabic) 149:Categories 70:References 56:Mount Etna 25:Andalusian 105:0041-977X 64:Géza II 29:Granada 113:619504 111:  103:  109:JSTOR 101:ISSN 93:doi 151:: 107:. 99:. 89:57 87:. 37:al 115:. 95:: 43:( 39:-

Index

Andalusian
Granada
Yusuf ibn Tashfin
Mount Etna
Volga Bulgarians
Géza II
doi
10.1017/S0041977X00028214
ISSN
0041-977X
JSTOR
619504
Scanned version of Tuhfat al-albab (in Arabic)
Travelers of Al-Andalus. Part 2
Categories
1080s births
1170 deaths
12th-century explorers
12th-century writers from al-Andalus
Travel writers of the medieval Islamic world

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