At a glance
- Roles
- traveler · writer
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
- Traveller and observerTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Kinani, Ibn Jubayr, an Andalusian traveller from Valencia and Granada. He performed the hajj in 579 AH and wrote an account of his journey, which describes the roads and the cities. 1
The journey
On his first journey he stayed in Damascus, Mosul and Baghdad, and he embarked from Acre with the Franks. His ship was damaged in the narrow gulf of Sicily, and he endured hardships until he reached al-Andalus in 581 AH. 1
Later life
He set out again for the East, and died in Alexandria on Wednesday the twenty-seventh of Sha'ban 614 AH. Al-Maqqari relays from Ibn al-Raqiq that prayers made at his grave are answered. 1
He transmitted the Shifa' (the Book of Healing) from Muhammad ibn Isa al-Tamimi, from the judge Iyad, and he afterwards held the judgeship of Ceuta. 1
Connections
People and things also explored
Granada· Ibn Jubayr reaches Alexandria· Alexandria· the Alexandria rising and its recovery (25 AH)· The Great Earthquake of 180 AH· The Revolt of Nizar ibn al-Mustansir at Alexandria and Its Suppression in 495· Abdullah al-Nadim· Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti
Sources
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.491
- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907)
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Jubayr, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Kinani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-jubayr-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-29.