Traveler and geographer Ibn Said al-Maghribi

Abstract

Ibn Said, the traveler, poet, writer, geographer, and historian, Andalusian in origin and environment. He is Ali Ibn Musa bin Muhammad Abd al-Malik bin Saeed. He was born in the city of Granada between the years (605 and 610 AH) in the castle of Yassab, also called the Castle of Bani Said. He studied language, literature, and poetry at the hands of Abu Ali al-Shalubin and Abu Hasan al-Dabbaj and Ibn Asfour. He has more than thirty books in various sciences: our choice comes to the traveler Ibn Saeed, as he wrote two books on geography, and they are among the most wonderful books he wrote.