Mohammed al-Abdari al-Hihi

Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Masoud ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Hihi (Arabic: محمد العبدري الحاحي) (fl. ca. 1289) was a Moroccan travel writer. He was born among the Haha, a Berber tribe in the south of Morocco.^[1] He is the author of The Moroccan Journey (Al-Rihlah al-magribiyyah), an account of his journey to Mecca in 1289, originally entitled Rihlat al-Abdari (al-Abdari's Journey). It was published by the Ministry of Education (ed. Muhammad al-Fasi, Rabat, 1968).)^[2]

The section of the al-Rihla al-Maghreibiyya describing places in Palestine was copied by Ibn Juzayy in 1354-1355 when writing an account of the travels of Ibn Battuta.^[3]

al-Abdari was also the grand Qadi (judge) of Marrakesh.^[4]

(He is not to be confused with Mohammed ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Fasi or Mohammed Ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed Abu Abdallah Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari al-Qayrawani al-Fasi al-Tilamsi, (ca. 1258 - 1336), the author of Madkhal Ash-Shara Ash-Shareef Ala Al-Mathahib, or "Introduction to Islamic Jurisprudence According to Schools of Thought".)

• Abdari, Muhammad ibn Muhammad. Rihlat al-'Abdari / ta'lif Abi 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'ud al-'Abdari; haqqaqaha wa-qaddama la-ha 'Ali Ibrahim Kurdi; qaddama la-ha Shakir al-Fahham. al-Tab'ah, Damascus : Dar Sa'd al-Din, 1999. (editor's MA thesis)

• al-ʻAbdarī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (1968). al-Fāsī, Muḥammad (ed.). Riḥlat al-ʻAbdarī al-musammāt al-riḥlah al-Maghribīyah (in Arabic). Rabat: Jāmiʻat Muḥammad al-Khāmis. OCLC 33857339.
• Cheneb, Muh. Ben; Hoenerbach, W. (1986). "Al-'Abdarī". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Volume I (2nd ed.). Leiden: Brill. p. 96. ISBN 90-04-08114-3.
• Cherbonneau, M. (1854). "Notice et extraits du voyage d'El-Abdery". Journal Asiatique. 5th series (in French). 4: 144–176.
• Hoenerbach, Wilhelm (1940). Das nordafrikanische Itinerar des 'Abdari vom Jahre 688/1289 (in German). Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus. OCLC 29093949.
• Wright, William, ed. and trans. (1907). "Preface". Travels of Ibn Jubayr (2nd ed.). Leiden: Brill. pp. 16–17.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

For a biography see [1] (retrieved September 11, 2008) N.B. This site mistakenly assumes that the two authors are the same.

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