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Leo Africanus

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Leo Africanus (ăfrĭkā`nəs), c.1465–1550, Moorish traveler in Africa and the Middle East. His Arabic name was Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad. Captured by pirates, he was sent as a slave to Pope Leo X. He became a Christian, adopting the name Johannes Leo, and taught Arabic in Rome. There he wrote in Arabic a description of his journeys in Africa (issued in Italian in 1526), which was for many years the only known source on the Sudan. An English translation (1600) was reissued by the Hakluyt Society as The History and Description of Africa (3 vol., 1896, repr. 1963).

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Aimee Shalan Trickster Travels: In Search of Leo Africanus , by Natalie Zemon Davis (Faber, £10.
Old war by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
5) One of the earliest European sources for information about this saint can be found in the Della descrittione dell'Africa, written in the 1520s by Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wassan), a Muslim from Granada had been taken captive at sea and converted in Rome.
The erotic legend of St. Nafissa and the Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza by Giles, Ryan D. / Romance Notes
Whereas Leo Africanus is a geographical author to be quoted or refuted on African matters, al-Hasan al-Wazzan is a Mediterranean traveler, a captive, a convert, "a man with a double vision, sustaining two cultural worlds" (12).
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds by Shalev, Zur / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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