Al Bakri
Ab Ubayd Abd Allh ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Muhammad al-Bakr, Abu Obeid al-Bakri ( the nineteenth century transcript in El-Bakri), geographer and historian of Muslim Hispania ( Al-Andalus ) , was born in 1014 in Huelva. Son of the Emir of the Taifa of Huelva and Saltes al-Bakr spent most of his life in Cordoba where he died in 1094.
He is the author of a dictionary geographical dictionary of words undecided (see Andr Miquel), whose names are listed alphabetically and are mainly the Saudi. He also wrote a geographical description of the known world, a sort of compilation of the fragments which remain, in particular the parts which describe the North Africa and Sudan.
Al-Bakri also describes in his works of Europe and the Arabian Peninsula that has never visited. His major work remains Masalik Kitb al-wa-al-Mamalik (Book of Roads and Kingdoms), written in 1068 in the tradition of Ibn Khurradadhbeh , with whom he has described for each country, its people, its customs, its climate and its major cities, with lots of anecdotes. However, much of his writing does not reach us.
Al-Bakri is the name of a crater on the moon named in his honor.
Bibliography
- Editions
- Abu Ubayd Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Aziz Bakri, al-wa-al-Masalik Mamalik, ed. by Jamal Tulbah Arabic, Beirut, 2003.
- Abu Ubayd Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Aziz Bakri, Kitab al-Ali Abi Tanbih Al awham Amalih fi, ed. Arabic Tahqiq by Markaz al-Turath, Cairo, 2000.
- Al-Bakri, Kitab al Masalik wa-l-Mamalik Notes
- Ibn Khurradadhbeh (820-911), The Book of Roads and Kingdoms (al-Kitab wa l-Mamalik Masalik), ed. and trans. by Michael French Johan de Goeje, Leiden, 1889, repr. Frankfurt am Main, 1992.
- Compared with the geographies of Ibn Hawqal and Al-Muqaddasi.
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