Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi

Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi
Native name
ابن سعيد المغربي
Born1213
Alcalá la Real, Granada, Al-Andalus
Died1286
Tunis
OccupationGeographer, Historian, Poet
Notable worksAl-Mughrib fī ḥulā al-Maghrib (The Extraordinary Book on the Adornments of the West)

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsā ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī (Arabic: علي بن موسى المغربي بن سعيد) (1213–1286), also known as Ibn Saʿīd al-Andalusī, was an Arab geographer, historian, poet, and the most important collector of poetry from al-Andalus in the 12th and 13th centuries.

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