IBN JUBAYR - THE TRAVELER OF THE CRUSADES

Note: The following article is taken from the Introduction to the work "THE TRAVELS OF IBN JUBAYR - New edition in English", written and translated by Giuditta Andrei in 2025. Therefore, the following information is intellectually property of the author. Opera del pittore inglese Frederick Goodall (1822-1904) Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Ahmad i bn Jubayr Al Kinani, known as Ibn Jubayr al-Andalusi, was born in the Emirate (or Taifa ) of Balansiya, now Valencia, on September 1, 1145. Under the tutelage of his father, a civil servant ( Katib ), and other scholars of his time, he studied religious sciences and hadith, and completed his Quranic studies between the cities of Xàtiva and Ceuta. His passion for arithmetic, linguistics, and literature, as well as his poetic and prose talents, soon led him to distinguish himself among the brilliant scholars of Andalusia, eventually serving as secretary to the Almohad governor of Granada, Abu Sa'id ibn Abdul Mu'min. It is said th...