Ingrid Bejarano Escanilla

Ingrid Bejarano Escanilla is a professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Seville.

Articles by Ingrid Bejarano Escanilla

Travelers of Al-Andalus, Part III: Ibn al-Shaykh and the Lighthouse of Alexandria

Travelers of Al-Andalus, Part III: Ibn al-Shaykh and the Lighthouse of Alexandria

Architect and builder by profession, Ibn al-Shaykh of Málaga wrote the most accurate description known of Egypt’s famous mariner’s sentinel— in what was essentially a primer for children, where it went unnoticed for nearly 800 years.
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Travelers of Al-Andalus, Part II: Abu Hamid Al-Garnati’s World of Wonders

Travelers of Al-Andalus, Part II: Abu Hamid Al-Garnati’s World of Wonders

Over his 90-year lifetime, this chronicler of fact and unabashed fancy trekked, sailed, caravanned, studied and traded from the far Arab West to the northern- and easternmost reaches of the 12th-century Islamic world.
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