Abu Hamid al-Gharnati

Abū Ḥāmid al-Gharnāṭī was an Arab traveler, geographer, and writer from Granada, Al-Andalus. who travelled around eastern and central Europe, and wrote about his travels in an Arabic travelogue, Tuhfat al-Albab. He also wrote about spectacular places and things in al-Mu’rib ‘an ba’d ‘aja’ib al-Maghreb, works that combine geographical description, ethnographic observation, and accounts of marvels. He established a genre of books of wonder in Arabic. Many of the things he saw and wrote about were embellished with fantastic details.