Ibn al-Mujawir
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Abu al-Fath Jamal al-Din Yusuf bin Yaqoub bin Muhammad Al Shaybani Al Dimashqi, better known as Ibn al-Mujawir was a Yemeni historian, traveler and businessman.
Historical Figures born in the 1200s 6
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Abu al-Fath Jamal al-Din Yusuf bin Yaqoub bin Muhammad Al Shaybani Al Dimashqi, better known as Ibn al-Mujawir was a Yemeni historian, traveler and businessman. He is known for his travelogue Tarikh al-Mustabsir or Tarikh al-Mustansir, a travel chronicle describing cities, commerce, local dynasties and social mores of the southern Arabian Peninsula. The chronicle is an important source for the economic history and popular life of the southern areas of the Arabian Peninsula and the isle of Socotra in the early 13th century.
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