Leo Africanus — Arabic Wikipedia

Arabic Wikipedia article on al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan (Leo Africanus); its infobox gives his birth in 1488 at Granada while its text reports historians placing the birth at 901 AH/1495 or at 906 AH/1500, and it carries the Tunisian historian Muhammad ibn al-Khuja's view that al-Wazzan's conversion to Christianity was only outward.

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