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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.”
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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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The Lighthouse of Alexandria
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