The Morocco and Andalussian Travels

Abstract

This study intended to trace the Morocco and Andalussian travels from the third century A.H up to ninth century A.H. since the numbers of these travels are fewer than of the real number of travelers themselves according to reference. There were many motions beyond these travels. The greatest was religious Islamic duty piligramage or the (Haj). After doing the duty and visiting Mecca and Medina (Haramin), most travelers tended to visit the holy places in the east such as Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem or the shrine of Abraham in Hebron then they stopped over Damuscus or other cities. During their return to homeland they stopped in Eygept to visit Amr Bin Al -As mosqe in Fastat.At last, they crossed mafazah from Burga to Tarablus, then to Tunisia and back to Morroco or Al-Andalus. Other motives were the tendency towards explanation and discovering the unknown, or searching for knowledge. The researcher has traced in this very research the printed travels in resourses, manuscripts and the scattered ones in books. Besides, she/He has traced the signs of these travelsand arranged them chronologically.And if the date of the travel has’nt been found, the researcher relies up on the year of the authors demise. Otherwise, she/He takes up the century of the travel unless the auther’death has been found. Thus, the arrangement of the travels has been chronological according to the centuries. It begins with the third century A.H. and ends up with the ninth century A.