Al-Bakri, Abu Ubayd Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Aziz

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At a glance

Roles: geographer · Historian
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region: al-Andalus & Europe
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Life in time

The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Razaq Allah ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Tamimi · Al-Baghawi, al-Husayn ibn Muhammad · Al-Ansari al-Harawi, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad · Al-A'lam al-Shantamari, Yusuf ibn Sulayman · Al-Baji, Abu al-Walid Sulayman ibn Khalaf

Geography and cartography History-writing and social thought

Place in the story

Traveller and observerTradition

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People and things also explored

Al-Idrisi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abd al-Razzaq al-Bitar· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu al-Khayr al-Armuni· Ahmad ibn Mustafa ibn al-Khawja· Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi· Al-Akwa', Muhammad ibn Ali

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Bakri, Abu Ubayd Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Aziz”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-bakri-abu-ubayd/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.

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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

Al-Idrisi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah

A geographer and traveller from Ceuta who worked at the court of Roger II in Sicily. He wrote Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, a geographical work with a world map.