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Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Masoud ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Hihi (Arabic: محمد العبدري الحاحي) (fl. ca. 1289) was a Moroccan travel writer. He was born among the Haha, a Berber tribe in the south of Morocco.[1] 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).)[2]

The section of the al-Rihla al-Maghreibiyya describing places in Palestine was copied by Ibn Juzayy in 1354-1355 when writing an account of the travels of Ibn Battuta.[3]

al-Abdari was also the grand Qadi (judge) of Marrakesh.[4]

(He is not to be confused with Mohammed ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Fasi 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

  1. ^ Khair, Tabish (2006). Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing. Signal Books. p. 281. ISBN 9781904955115.
  2. ^ Sadik Rddad, (on al-Hihi) Al-Abdari: The Disgruntled Traveller, in: Tabish Khair, Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing, 2006, p. 281.
  3. ^ Elad, Amikam (1987). "The description of the travels of Ibn Baṭūṭṭa in Palestine: is it original?". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 119: 256–272. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00140651.
  4. ^ "دعوة الحق - ابن الحاج العبدري والرحالة العبدري". Habous.gov. Retrieved 4 May 2014.

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For a biography see [1] (retrieved September 11, 2008) N.B. This site mistakenly assumes that the two authors are the same.


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