At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
Al-Maqqari places Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Qurtubi in the chapter "Andalusis who travelled to the lands of the East": he left Cordoba as an emigrant and settled in Egypt 1. The Encyclopaedia of Islam says he "made his way to the Orient and settled at Munyat Abi l-Khusayb in Upper Egypt" 2.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Qurtubi
- Occurred at
- Cordoba
People and things also explored
al-Qurtubi· Cordoba· Great Mosque of Córdoba· Library of the Córdoba Palace· Al-Qurtubi composes al-Jami' li-Ahkam al-Qur'an and his other books, c. 670/1272· Al-Qurtubi settles at Munyat Bani Khusayb in Upper Egypt, c. 660/1262· Al-Qurtubi hears part of al-Mufhim from its author at Alexandria, 656/1258· The battle of al-Arak (Alarcos)
Sources
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , 2/210-211
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 5 p. 550
- Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Dar al-Risala al-Alamiyya edition)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Qurtubi leaves al-Andalus for the East”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/al-qurtubi-departs-andalus/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.