Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Masoud ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Hihi (Arabic: محمد العبدري الحاحي) (fl. ca. 1289) was a Moroccan travel writer. He was born among the Haha, a Berber tribe in the south of Morocco.[1] He is the author of The Moroccan Journey (Al-Rihlah al-magribiyyah), an account of his journey to Mecca in 1289, originally entitled Rihlat al-Abdari (al-Abdari's Journey). It was published by the Ministry of Education (ed. Muhammad al-Fasi, Rabat, 1968).)[2]
The section of the al-Rihla al-Maghreibiyya describing places in Palestine was copied by Ibn Juzayy in 1354-1355 when writing an account of the travels of Ibn Battuta.[3]
al-Abdari was also the grand Qadi (judge) of Marrakesh.[4]
(He is not to be confused with Mohammed ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Fasi or Mohammed Ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed Abu Abdallah Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari al-Qayrawani al-Fasi al-Tilamsi, (ca. 1258 - 1336), the author of Madkhal Ash-Shara Ash-Shareef Ala Al-Mathahib, or "Introduction to Islamic Jurisprudence According to Schools of Thought".)
^Sadik Rddad, (on al-Hihi) Al-Abdari: The Disgruntled Traveller, in: Tabish Khair, Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing, 2006, p. 281.
^Elad, Amikam (1987). "The description of the travels of Ibn Baṭūṭṭa in Palestine: is it original?". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 119: 256–272. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00140651.
Abdari, Muhammad ibn Muhammad. Rihlat al-'Abdari / ta'lif Abi 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'ud al-'Abdari; haqqaqaha wa-qaddama la-ha 'Ali Ibrahim Kurdi; qaddama la-ha Shakir al-Fahham. al-Tab'ah, Damascus : Dar Sa'd al-Din, 1999. (editor's MA thesis)
Hoenerbach, Wilhelm (1940). Das nordafrikanische Itinerar des 'Abdari vom Jahre 688/1289 (in German). Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus. OCLC29093949.
Wright, William, ed. and trans. (1907). "Preface". Travels of Ibn Jubayr (2nd ed.). Leiden: Brill. pp. 16–17.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
