Kitab al-Rawd al-Mitar
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Kitab al-Rawd al-Mitar, The Book of the Fragrant Garden, is a fifteenth-century Arabic geography by Muhammad bin Abd al-Munim al-Himyari that is a primary source for Spain in the Middle Ages
, though it is based in part on the earlier account by Muhammad al-Idrisi
. It was edited and translated into French by E. Levi-Provençal in 1938 and into Spanish by Maria Pilar Maestro González in 1963.
Spain in the Middle Ages
After the disorders of the passage of the Vandals and Alans down the Mediterranean coast of Hispania from 408, the history of Medieval Spain begins with the Iberian kingdom of the Arianist Visigoths , who were converted to Catholicism with their king Reccared in 587...
, though it is based in part on the earlier account by Muhammad al-Idrisi
Muhammad al-Idrisi
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply Al Idrisi was a Moroccan Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II. Muhammed al-Idrisi was born in Ceuta then belonging to the Almoravid Empire and died in...
. It was edited and translated into French by E. Levi-Provençal in 1938 and into Spanish by Maria Pilar Maestro González in 1963.