Ali al-Harawi, the Wanderer
علي الهروي السائح
Abu al-Hasan Ali b. Abi Bakr al-Harawi 'the Wanderer' — Islam's greatest traveller before Ibn Battuta: he covered land and sea, left his inscription on walls everywhere (Ibn Khallikan saw them himself), and stood before Etna in Sicily 1.
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- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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