Arab traveler ..bn Jubair

Ibn Jubayr of the most famous travelers Muslims who have trips to the Levant, without which a lot of information which are documents from the first class because of good observation and explicit words, was his trip is an important source for researchers in the field of history and the meeting and Arab civilization in the sixth century and the seventh Islamic.

His name: Mohammed bin Ahmed bin Jubair, also known as Abu Hassan.
Ibn Jubayr was born in Valencia, Andalusia in 540 AH, and is descended from an ancient Arab family lived in Andalusia in 123 AH, coming from the east with the famous Commander Plug-bin Bishr ibn Ayaz.
Completed Ibn Jubayr study after completing save of the Koran in Valencia at the hands of Abu al-Hasan ibn Abi live, and in Xativa familiarize Ibn Jubayr science of religion at the hands of his father and their craving but his tastes have also emerged in arithmetic, and in the science of language and literature, and showed the talents of poetry and prose nominated a writer to work for the governor of Granada at the time of Abu Said Othman bin Abdul Momen, Prince of monotheists.
Trips:
Jubair was the son loves trips and navigate left the Prince and his three trips to the Orient
The first flight came out the year 579 AH from Granada to (Ceuta) and which rode the sea to Alexandria, which went to Mecca through (Aivab) Vgda, Straddle and visited the city of Kufa, Baghdad, Mosul, Aleppo and Damascus and rode the sea to Sicily back to Granada in 581 AH The journey took two years, scoring his observations and remarks in his diary into a closer known trip Ibn Jubayr then follow this journey trip second and third.
The second trip was paid to news recover Jerusalem from the Crusaders by Sultan Saladin year 583 AH embarking on this journey the year 585 AH and ended them in 586 AH.
As for his third trip was following the death of his wife, he was loved great love, Vdfh sadness upon to do a third trip soothed by what pain by grief at leaving her, went out of (Ceuta) to Mecca, where he remained for a period of time and then left to Jerusalem, Cairo and Alexandria , where he died the year 614 AH.
And did not leave us Ibn Jubayr only talking about his first trip.



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Journey of Ibn Jubayr
Works of Ibn Jubayr his book on his first trip and known as the "Journey of Ibn Jubair," and is one of the most important works of the Arabs in the trips.
You may lose the monuments and mosques, government offices and studied their conditions and said what he saw and what he had endured in his travels, and described the case of Egypt during the reign of Salah al-Din and praise to neutralize Max (tax) arising from the pilgrims, and described Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and the time curiosities that were in it, which made ​​Radwan son Watchmaker, and criticized many of the cases, and the most important observations occur from Sicily and its effects, from schools, mosques and palaces, and on the left by the Arab civilization in the island.


He has left us «Ibn Jubayr» masterpiece through his book «Journey of Ibn Jubair» and so while drawing us life in all its manifestations in the seventh century in the Orient, Morocco, and the impression left by himself in these cities and the importance that they felt they deserve.
From poetry of Ibn Jubayr
Many people who do not know from Ibn Jubair that he was a man of letters a poet, and has a collection of poems called "systems Aljoman in complaining of the brothers of the time", as his last book entitled "The result found in Jawanh memorial consort good."
This is a wonderful example of his poetry, his poem of that praise by Sultan Salahuddin, congratulate him open the Holy House, and which says:
Revenge for a debt-Huda in Alaada Vatherk God of Thaer
Victory god and you Alory Vsmak King Nasser
I opened the Bible from his land went back to the described Tahir
Oalit Mannar and the guidance and revived drawn from Aldather
His death:
Died traveler Ibn Jubayr see which of his third year in Alexandria, 614 AH, at the age of seventy and fourth years.