ABU HAMID AL GHARNATI

MUHAMMAD AMIRUL NAIM BIN ROSMI

• “Marvels are found in the most remote part of the sky and the earth. Our Lord has ordered us to contemplate the wonders of the wor ld.”

Background

Abu Hamid al-Gharnati

Pronunciation: Arabic:  الغرناطي حامد  أبوPersian:  غرناطي حامد  أبو

Abu Hamid Muhammad Al Mazini Al Gharnati

Real name : Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Suleiman ibn Rabi al-Qaysi

473-565 AH Ca.1080 - 1169 AD

• Andalusian traveller and geography• Natural history,cosmography,astronomy and

ethnography• His travel stories were combined with many fantastic

stories• His work become one of the principle source for the

famous fourteenth-century geographer al Qazwini• Genre of writing : Kutub al ‘ajaib ( Books of wonder)• His famous books were Tuhfat Albab Tuhfat al-albab

wa nukhbat al-‘aja’ib (Gift of Secrets and Selection of Wonders)and Al Mu’rib ‘an ba’d ajaib al maghrib (Praise of Some of the Wonders of North Africa)

Travel story 10 years old - Flee to Cuenca as refuge ( Almoravid King approached Granada)

1108- Battle of Ucles – Flee for second time

1115- Alexandria - Cairo

1124 – Baghdad

1153 -he lived as an advisor at the Hungarian King, Geza II Hof - Syaikhul Islam to the Muslims in Hungary - Makkah, Isfahan, Basra1155 – Baghdad1169 – Died in Damascus

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