When describing Damascus, Mecca, Medina and some other places in the Middle East, Ibn Juzayy clearly copied passages from the 12th-century account by Ibn Jubayr.

Further information can be gathered from travellers such as Benjamin of Tudela and Ibn Jubayr.

* 1145 – Ibn Jubayr, Muslim geographer, traveler, and poet ( d. 1217 )

* Ibn Jubayr, geographer, traveler and poet ( d. 1217 )

Other references to Indian timber used for shipbuilding is noted in the works of Ibn Jubayr.

According to Ibn Jubayr, under Saladin, Damascus had 20 schools, 100 baths, and a large number of Sufi dervish monasteries.

Arab geographer Ibn Jubayr toured Palestine in 1182 and mentioned az-Zeeb as a large fortress with a village and adjoining lands between Acre and Tyre.

* of the travels of Ibn Jubayr ( 1907, 5th vol.

It is clear that Ibn Juzayy outright copied some long passages ( like the description of Medina ) from the Rihla of Ibn Jubayr.

Al-Bukhari also recorded from Sa ` id bin Jubayr that Ibn ` Abbas said, " Al-Kawthar is the abundant goodness.

Early examples of travel literature include Pausanias ' Description of Greece in the 2nd century CE, and the travelogues of Ibn Jubayr ( 1145 – 1214 ) and Ibn Batutta ( 1304 – 1377 ), both of whom recorded their travels across the known world in detail.

*: The Travels of Ibn Jubayr ( c. 1185 )

Ibn Jubayr ( 1 September 1145 – 1217 ; ) was a geographer, traveler and poet from al-Andalus.

Ibn Jubayr was born in 1145 A. D. in Valencia, Spain.

Ibn Jubayr studied in the town of Játiva where his father worked as a civil servant.

In the introduction to his Rihla Ibn Jubayr explains the reason for his travels.

To expiate his godless act, although forced upon him, Ibn Jubayr decided to perform the duty of Hajj to Mecca.

Ibn Jubayr left Granada and crossed over the Strait of Gibraltar to Ceuta, then under Muslim rule.

Everywhere that Ibn Jubayr travelled in Egypt he was full of praise for the new Sunni ruler, Saladin.

" Ibn Jubayr is, on the other hand, very disparaging of the previous Shi ' a dynasty of the Fatimids.

Of Cairo, Ibn Jubayr notes, are the colleges and hostels erected for students and pious men of other lands by the Sultan Saladin.

" Ibn Khaldun ( 1332-1406 ) was a famous Arab Muslim historian who engaged in historiography philosophy of history.

Following the era of the Khilji dynasty in 1333, the famous Moroccan travelling scholar Ibn Battuta was visiting Kabul:

and influenced the more famous 11th century Optics by Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham ).

* Ibn Taymiyyah, famous Hanbali, Salafi Scholar of Islam

* 1011 – 1021: Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhacen ), a famous Iraqi scientist working in Egypt, feigned madness in fear of angering the Egyptian caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, and was kept under house arrest from 1011 to 1021.

* Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhacen ), a famous Persian scientist working in Egypt, feigns madness in fear of angering Al-Hakim, and is kept under house arrest until 1021.

One traditional story describes the pilot as the famous Arab navigator Ibn Majid, but other contemporaneous accounts place Majid elsewhere, and he could not have been near the vicinity at the time.

According to the famous Islamic legal scholar Ibn Qayyim ( 1292 – 1350 ), non-Muslims had the right to engage in such religious practices even if it offended Muslims, under the conditions that such cases not be presented to Islamic Sharia courts and that these religious minorities believed that the practice in question is permissible according to their religion.

Averroes later reported how it was also Ibn Tufail that inspired him to write his famous commentaries on Aristotle:

Averroes also studied the works and philosophy of Ibn Bajjah (" Avempace " to the West ), another famous Islamic philosopher who greatly influenced his own Averroist thought.

Next to Ibn Adonijah the critical study of the Masorah has been most advanced by Elijah Levita, who published his famous " Massoret ha-Massoret " in 1538.

Cloves were traded by Muslim sailors and merchants during the Middle Ages in the profitable Indian Ocean trade, the Clove trade is also mentioned by Ibn Battuta and even famous One Thousand and One Nights characters such Sinbad the Sailor is known to have bought and sold Cloves.

The father of the famous Hanbalite scholar Ibn Taymiyyah was a refugee from Harran, settling in Damascus.

the family of the famous philosopher and court physician, Ishac Ibn Sulaiman El Israeli of Kairouan, who flourished in the tenth

The most famous social philosopher was the Ash ' ari polymath Ibn Khaldun ( 1332 – 1406 ), who was the last major Islamic philosopher from North Africa.

Averroes ( Ibn Rushd ) is most famous for his commentaries on Aristotle's works and for writing The Incoherence of the Incoherence in which he defended the falasifa against al-Ghazali's The Incoherence of the Philosophers.

The famous Moroccan scholar and traveller Ibn Battuta did visit Mombasa in 1331 on his travels on the eastern coast of Africa and made some mention of the city, although he only stayed one night.

From Granada to Murcia, the town of his birth and stayed with an old friend Abū Ahmed Ibn Saydabūn, a famous disciple of Abu Madyan who at the time of their meeting was evidently going through a period of fatra or suspension.

He not only introduced Ibn ‘ Arabī to the Prophetic tradition but also transmitted to him the teachings of the most famous saint in Egypt in the ninth century, Dhū ’ l-Nūn al-Miṣrī.

In the year 608 we find him in Baghdad with his friend Majduddīn Isḥāq and there he met the famous historian Ibn al-Dubaythī and his disciple Ibn al-Najjār.

According to Osman Yahia in Baghdad Ibn ‘ Arabī met with the famous Sufi Shihābuddīn Suharwardī ( d. 632 ), author of the ‘ Awārif al-ma ’ ārif who was personal advisor to Caliph al-Nāṣir.

Ibn ‘ Arabī performed Ḥajj and started compilation of his most famous poetic work the Tarjumān al-Ashwāq.

Later Ibn ‘ Arabī returned to Malatya and according to Stephen Hartenstein he met Bahā ’ uddīn Walad, father of the famous Persian Poet Jallaluddin Rumi, the famous Persian poet of that time.