Abd al aziz al-bakri biography
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Abd al aziz al-bakri biography
Al-Bakrī, Ab
(b. ca. 1010; d. 1094)
geography.
Al-Bakrī was a Hispano-Arabic geographer who belonged to a family of landowners that took advantage of the fall of the caliphate of Cordoba, to declare itself independent in Huelva and Saltes.
When his father was deposed by al-Muʿtaḍid, al-Bakrī moved to Córdoba, where he studied with the historian Ibn Ḥayyān (d. 1075)and the geographer al-ʿUdhrī (d.
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1085). For much of his life al-Bakrī was a member of al-Muʿtasim’s court at Almeria, and late in life he became acquainted with the writer Ibn Khāgān. He spent much time in Seville, and was there when El Cid arrived to collect the tributes due Alfonso VI.
A man of wide-ranging knowledge, al-Bakrī was a good poet and philologist who devoted much of his time to geography, even though it appears that he never traveled outside the Iberian Peninsula.
His main scientific works are the following:
(1) Muʿjam mā istaʿjam, a collection of place names that are mainly Arabian and that