Mohammed al-Abdari al-Hihi


Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Masoud ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Hihi was a Moroccan travel writer. He was born among the Haha, a Berber tribe in the south of Morocco. He is the author of The Moroccan Journey, an account of his journey to Mecca in 1289, originally entitled Rihlat al-Abdari. It was published by the Ministry of Education
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.
al-Abdari was also the grand Qadi of Marrakesh.