Abu'l Abbas al-Hijazi

Abu'l Abbas al-Hijazi, was a 12th-century Arab^[1] Muslim traveler, merchant and sailor and is known to have spent forty years in China.^[1] His seven sons whom he positioned in seven different commercial centers from his base in Yemen, enhanced his trading business by sending goods from foreign markets.^[1] He had lost 11 ships in the Indian Ocean but recovered his fortunes when his 12th ship safely arrived from China which carried porcelain and aloewood.^[2]^[3]

References

1 2 3 Egyptian Commercial Policy in the Middle Ages, Subhi Labib, Studies in the Economic History of the Middle East: from the Rise of Islam, ed. M. A. Cook, (Oxford University Press, 1970), 68.
↑ http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/China%201.pdf
↑ Asia, Africa and the Trade of Medieval Europe, David Abulafia, The Cambridge Economic History of Europe: Trade and industry in the Middle Ages, Vol. II, ed. Michael Moïssey Postan, H. J. Habakkuk, Edward Miller, (Cambridge University Press, 1987), 441.

Geography and cartography in medieval Islam

Geographers

9th century	Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarī Ya'qubi Sulaiman al-Tajir

10th century	Ibn Khordadbeh Ahmad ibn Rustah Ahmad ibn Fadlan Abu Zayd al-Balkhi Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī Al-Masudi Istakhri Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad Ibn Hawqal Ibn al-Faqih Al-Muqaddasi Al-Ramhormuzi

11th century	Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī Abu Saʿīd Gardēzī Al-Bakri Mahmud al-Kashgari Domiyat

12th century	Al-Zuhri Muhammad al-Idrisi Abu'l Abbas al-Hijazi

13th century	Ibn Jubayr Saadi Shirazi Yaqut al-Hamawi Ibn Said al-Maghribi Ibn al-Nafis

14th century	Al-Dimashqi Abu'l-Fida Ibn al-Wardi Hamdollah Mostowfi Ibn Battuta Lin Nu

15th century	Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī Ghiyāth al-dīn Naqqāsh Ahmad ibn Mājid Zheng He Ma Huan Fei Xin

16th century	Sulaiman Al Mahri Piri Reis Mir Ahmed Nasrallah Thattvi Amīn Rāzī

17th century	Evliya Çelebi

Works

Influences

Geography (Ptolemy)

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