IBN JUBAIR [.

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• ABU

Abu-1 Ijusain Mahommed ibn Ahmad ibn Jubair] (1145-1217)  , Arabian geographer, was born in Valencia . At Granada he studied the Koran, tradition, law and literature, and later became secretary to the Mohad governor of that city . During this time he composed many poems . In 1183 he left the court and travelled to Alexandria, Jerusalem, Medina, Mecca, Damascus, Mosul and Bagdad, returning in 1185 by way of Sicily . The Travels of Ibn Jubair were edited by W . Wright (Leiden, 1852) ; and a new edition of this text, revised by M . J. de Goeje, was published by the Gibb Trustees (London, 1907) . The part relating to Sicily was published, with French translation and notes, by M . Amari in the Journal asiatique (1845—1846) and a French translation alone of the same part by G . Crolla in Museon, vi . 123-132 . (G .

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