# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmad-ibn-majid
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:13:04.511Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmad-ibn-majid"
name: "Ahmad ibn Mājid"
slug: "ahmad-ibn-majid"
description: "Aḥmad ibn Mājid, also known as the \"Arab Admiral\" and the \"Lion of the Sea\", was an Arab navigator and cartographer born c. 1432 in Julfar, the present-day Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. He was raised in a family famous for seafaring; at the age of seventeen he was able to navigate ships. The exact date is not known, but Ibn Mājid probably died around 1500. Although long identified in the West as the navigator who helped Vasco da Gama find his way from Africa to India, contemporary research has shown Ibn Mājid is unlikely even to have met Da Gama. Ibn Mājid was the author of nearly forty works of poetry and prose."
tagline: "Arab navigator and cartographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/N%C3%A9gociant_musulman_de_Mascate.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1432"
deathDate: "1500"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump