The Image Of Khorasan In The Eyes Of The Andalusian Traveler Abu Hamed Al-Gharnati Through His Book "The Masterpiece Of Minds And The Elite Of Admiration " A Historical, Analytical And Comparative Study Of its Social And Economic Conditions

Abstract

Geographical trips in general and  Andalusian trips in particular, to the countries of the Arab and Islamic Mashreq were a clear historical and literary phenomenon.

The research here shows an interest in transferring fragments related to the province of Khorasan in one of the most famous Andalusian trips to the East, which is the journey of Abu Hamid Al-Gharnati with an attempt to guess The reasons that led him to abbreviate the description of Khorasan.

The Andalusian traveler Abu Hamid Al-Gharnati lived in the sixth century AH / twelfth century AD, the era of geographical creativity among the Muslim Arabs

He traveled through the continents of the ancient world, then recorded the observations of his.travels in his book, "The Masterpiece of Minds and the Elite of Admiration," in which he combined the description of the geography of the countries he visited with the features of social life and the economic situation in them.

This research reveals the image of Khorasan and its conditions through a hi torical and analytical study of what the Andalusian traveler Abu Hamid Al-Gharnati presented in his book "The Masterpiece of Minds and Elite Admiration " and what he brought with it of facts and facts related

to Khorasan whose presence varies in the hadiths of Al-Gharnati between the social, economic and other aspects, then he dealt with This scattered news by analyzing, detailing and comparing what was written about Khorasan in some of the writings of other Andalusian and Oriental geographers alike.