Leo Africanus — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan); it gives his birth about 1494 at Granada from his own self-reported ages, his capture in 1518, his baptism by Pope Leo X in 1520 as Johannes Leo de Medicis, and the three theories of his end, including Widmannstetter's report that he returned to Tunis and reconverted to Islam.