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Sep 01, 1145 Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain Died on 29 Nov 1217 (aged 72)
Arab traveller and geographer
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About Ibn Jubayr
- Ibn Jubayr (1 September 1145 –29 November 1217; Arabic: ??? ?????), also written Ibn Jubair, Ibn Jobair, and Ibn Djubayr, was an Arab geographer, traveller and poet from al-Andalus.
- His travel chronicle describes the pilgrimage he made to Mecca from 1183 to 1185, in the years preceding the Third Crusade.
- His chronicle describes Saladin's domains in Egypt and the Levant which he passed through on his way to Mecca.
- Further, on his return journey he passed through Christian Sicily, which had only been recaptured from the Muslims a century before, and he makes several observations on the hybrid polyglot culture which flourished there.
