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{{Short description|Moroccan travel writer}}
{{distinguish|text=the 13th-century Maliki scholar [[Ibn al-Haj al-Abdari]]}}
{{Moroccan literature}}
'''Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Masoud ibn Hajj al-Abdari al-Hihi''' ({{Langx|ar|محمد العبدري الحاحي}}) (fl. ca. 1289) was a Moroccan travel writer. He was born among the [[Hhaha tribe (Berber)|Haha]], a Berber tribe in the south of [[Morocco]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fcIvtBPnYL8C|title=Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing|last=Khair|first=Tabish|publisher=Signal Books|year=2006|isbn=9781904955115|pages=281|language=en}}</ref> 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).)<ref>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.</ref>
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]].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Elad | first=Amikam | year=1987 | title= The description of the travels of Ibn Baṭūṭṭa in Palestine: is it original? | journal= Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society | volume=119 | pages=256–272 | doi=10.1017/S0035869X00140651 }}</ref>
al-Abdari was also the grand Qadi (judge) of [[Marrakesh]].<ref>{{cite web|title=دعوة الحق - ابن الحاج العبدري والرحالة العبدري|url=http://habous.gov.ma/daouat-alhaq/item/8316|publisher=Habous.gov|access-date=4 May 2014}}</ref>
(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".)
==References==
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*''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)
==Further reading==
*{{cite book | last1= al-ʻAbdarī | first1=Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad  | editor-last=al-Fāsī | editor-first=Muḥammad  | year=1968 | title=Riḥlat al-ʻAbdarī al-musammāt al-riḥlah al-Maghribīyah | place=Rabat | publisher= Jāmiʻat Muḥammad al-Khāmis | language=ar | oclc=33857339 }}
*{{cite book | last1=Cheneb | first1=Muh. Ben  | last2=Hoenerbach  | first2=W. | title=Encyclopaedia of Islam. Volume I | edition=2nd | year=1986 | contribution=Al-'Abdarī |publisher=Brill | place=Leiden | url=https://archive.org/stream/EncyclopaediaDictionaryIslamMuslimWorldEtcGibbKramerScholars.13/01.EncycIslam.NewEdPrepNumLeadOrient.EdEdComCon.Gibb.Kramersetc.UndPatIUA.v1.A-B.PhotRepr.Leid.EJBrill.1960.1986.#page/n114/mode/1up | isbn= 90-04-08114-3 | page=96}}
*{{ cite journal | last=Cherbonneau | first=M. | year=1854 | title=Notice et extraits du voyage d'El-Abdery  | journal=Journal Asiatique | series=5th series | volume=4  | pages=144–176 | url=https://archive.org/stream/journalasiatiqu71fragoog#page/n148/mode/2up | language=fr }} <!-- also http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k931642/f144.image -->
*{{cite book | last=Hoenerbach | first=Wilhelm | year=1940 | title=Das nordafrikanische Itinerar des 'Abdari vom Jahre 688/1289 | publisher=F.A. Brockhaus | place=Leipzig | oclc=29093949 | language=de }}
*{{cite book | last=Wright | first=William, ed. and trans. | year=1907 | title=Travels of Ibn Jubayr | edition=2nd | publisher=Brill | place=Leiden | pages=16–17 | chapter=Preface | chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/travelsofibnjuba05ibnjuoft#page/16/mode/2up }}
==External links==
For a biography see [https://web.archive.org/web/20091027100858/http://geocities.com/mutmainaa/people/muhammad_al_hajj.html] (retrieved September 11, 2008) N.B. This site mistakenly assumes that the two authors are the same.
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