Johannes Leo Africanus (born al-Hasan Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Arabic: الحسن محمد الوزان الفاسي; c. 1494 – c. 1554) was an Andalusi diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica, later published by Giovanni Battista Ramusio as Descrittione dell'Africa (Description of ...

Leo Africanus was a traveler whose writings remained for some 400 years one of Europe’s principal sources of information about Islam. Educated at Fès, in Morocco, Leo Africanus traveled widely as a young man on commercial and diplomatic missions …

Sep 18, 2024 · Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Wazzan al-Fasi al-Granati, 1485-1554) was a diplomat, merchant traveller and scholar who famously voyaged from Timbuktu to the Niger River and wrote...

約翰尼斯·利奥·阿非利加努斯 （拉丁語： Joannes Leo Africanus[1]），（1495年—1550年），本名 哈桑·伊本·穆罕默德·瓦贊 （al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan） [2][3]， 文艺复兴时期 欧洲 旅行家。 为来自西班牙穆斯林王國 格拉纳达 的 摩里斯科人，自稱曾遊歷 非洲 北部，并达到 近东 地区。 [4] 他的游记于16世纪时得到 翻译 出版。 [5] 哈桑·伊本·穆罕默德·瓦贊出生於 西班牙 格拉納達，幼時移居 摩洛哥 費茲 （當時穆斯林在西班牙的控制區已落入基督徒手中）。 [2] 其在 …

約翰尼斯·利奧·阿非利加努斯 （拉丁語： Joannes Leo Africanus[1]），（1495年—1550年），本名 哈桑·伊本·穆罕默德·瓦贊 （al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan） [2][3]， 文藝復興時期 歐洲 旅行家。 為來自西班牙穆斯林王國 格拉納達 的 摩里斯科人，曾遍游現在的 非洲 北部，並達到 近東 地區。 [4] 他的遊記於16世紀時得到 翻譯 出版。 [5] Description of Africa （英語：Description of Africa (1550 book)）:1526年寫成 [6][7] 、1550年於 威尼斯 出版的遊記 [8]。

The name by which Leo is known today, Leo Africanus (Leo the African), stems from his reputation for writing the “definitive” European book on Africa. Through his descriptions, Europeans formed an image of Timbuktu as an exotic, mysterious, ancient, and inaccessible locale, making it the subject of fantasy and legend for years to come.

Nov 11, 2024 · Leo Africanus aka Al-Hassan Al-Wazzan (1485-1554) was an Andalusian scholar whose family migrated from Granada to Fez, Morocco, during the Spanish Reconquista when Catholic monarchs Isabella I of Castile (1451-1504) and Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452-1516) seized Granada, marking the end of 700 years of Muslim rule.

Jan 16, 2012 · Introduction: The sixteenth-century Andalusi adventurer Leo Africanus was a household name amidst European geographers for almost three centuries. He was unanimously respected as the most authoritative source for the political and human geography of the Barbary Coast and Sudanic Africa, until the beginning of European exploration and expansion ...

Jun 2, 2018 · The diplomat and traveler now known as Leo Africanus was born Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazan al-Fasi (حسن ابن محمد الوزان الفاسي‎) in the early 1490s in Spanish Grenada; of the exact date we are not certain.

By his mid 20s, Leo had journeyed to Constantinople, Arabia, to Sub-Saharan Africa and Egypt. He had also extensively covered the Maghreb, both coastal and inland. Most of these travels were warranted by small diplomatic missions on behalf of the Wattaside Sultan in Fes, and were quite unusual given Leo's very young age.