Abu Hamid al-Gharnati

1080–1170

Andalusian Arab traveller who travelled around eastern and central Europe, and wrote about his travels in travelogue

writer · geographer · traveler

Born in Granada

Contemporaries

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• Omar Khayyám (1048–1131)
• Saladin (1138–1193)
• Al-Ghazali (1056–1111)
• Averroes (1126–1198)
• Zhu Xi (1130–1200)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
• Moshe ben Maimon (1138–1204)
• Peter Abelard (1079–1142)

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