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- ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Bakrī, 1040-1094
- Abu ʼObeid ʼAbdallah ben ʼAbd el-ʼAzîz el-Bekrī, 1040-1094
- Abu Obeida Abdallah Ben Abdel-aziz Bekri, 1040-1094
- Abū ʻUbayd ʻAbd Allāh al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʻAmr al-Bakrī, 1040-1094
- Abū ʻUbayd ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Bakrī, 1040-1094
- Abū ʻUbayd al-Bakrī, 1040-1094
- Abū ʻUbaydah ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Bakrī, 1040-1094
- Al-Bakri, 1040-1094
- Bakrī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 1040-1094
- Bekrī, Abu ʼObeid ʼAbdallah ben ʼAbd el-ʼAzîz, 1040-1094
- Bekri, Abu Obeida Abdallah Ben Abdel-aziz, 1040-1094
- Bakrī, Abū ʻUbayd, 1040-1094
- Bakrī, Abū ʻUbaydah ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz, 1040-1094
- أبو عبيد البكري
- أبو عبيد عبد الله بن عبد العزيز البكري
- بكرى، ابو عبيد عبد الله بن عبد العزيز، 0401-4901
- بكري، أبو عبيد الله إبن عبد العزيز 1040-1094
- بكري، أبو عبيد عبد الله ابن عبد العزيز
- بكري، أبو عبيد عبد الله بن عبد العزيز
- بكري، أبو عبيد عبد الله بن عبد العزيز، 1040-1094
- بكري، أبو عبيد عبد الله بن عبد العزيز، 1094-1040
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Birth Date
- 1040
Death Date
- 1094
Birth Place
- Huelva (Spain)
Associated Language
- Arabic
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Africa, West--Geography
(lcsh) Arabian Peninsula--Geography
Occupation
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Sources
- found: Yūsuf Kamāl.Hallucinations scientifiques, 1937.
- found: His Geografia de España, 1982:t.p. (Abū ʻUbayd al-Bakrī)
- found: Wikipedia, September 24, 2019(Al-Bakri; Abū ʻUbayd ʻAbd Allāh al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʻAmr al-Bakrī [in rom.]; Arabic: أبو عبيد عبد الله بن عبد العزيز البكري; or simply al-Bakrī; Andalusian Arab historian and the greatest geographer of the Muslim West; born in Huelva, son of the sovereign of the short-lived principality there; belonged to the Arab tribe of Bakr; when his father was deposed he moved to Córdoba, studied there with geographer al-Udri and historian Ibn Hayyan; spent his entire life in Al-Andalus, most of it in Seville and Almeria; died in Córdoba; never traveled to the areas he wrote about: Europe, North Africa, and the Arabian peninsula; only two of his works have survived: Mu'jam mā ista'jam (place names in the Arabian peninsula), and Kitāb al-Masālik wa-al-Mamālik ("Book of Highways and of Kingdoms"), composed in 1068, one of the most important sources for the history of West Africa: Ghana Empire, the Almoravid dynasty, and trans-Saharan trade)
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Change Notes
- 1981-11-09: new
- 2020-04-01: revised
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