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Ibn Jubayr
Arab traveller and geographer · Writers · Lived 1145 to 1217 · aged 72
Ibn Jubayr, also written Ibn Jubair, Ibn Jobair, and Ibn Djubayr, was an Arab geographer, traveller and poet from al-Andalus. His travel chronicle describes the pilgrimage he made to Mecca from 1183 to 1185, in the years preceding the Third Crusade.
Ibn Jubayr is read about 70 times a day, in 31 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
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A 13th-century painting showing a Christian and a Muslim playing chess
Map of the first journey by Ibn Jubair from Ceuta to Makkah
Saladin and the mamluks assured the protection of caravan routes that allowed travel to distant lands.![San Giovanni degli Eremiti, an example of Arab-Norman architecture,[15] combining Gothic walls with Islamic domes, built in Palermo, Sicily, by the Normans.[16]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Saint-John_of_the_Hermits%281840Lithograph%29.JPG/500px-Saint-John_of_the_Hermits%281840Lithograph%29.JPG)
San Giovanni degli Eremiti, an example of Arab-Norman architecture,[15] combining Gothic walls with Islamic domes, built in Palermo, Sicily, by the Normans.[16]About this person
His chronicle describes Saladin's domains in Egypt and the Levant which he passed through on his way to Mecca. Further, on his return journey, he passed through Christian Sicily, which had been recaptured from the Muslims only a century before, and he made several observations on the hybrid polyglot culture that flourished there.
