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...

Leo Africanus (French: Léon l'Africain) is a 1986 novel by Amin Maalouf, written in the form of a memoir, depicting the life of the eponymous Renaissance-era...

described: Songhay origin: both Leo Africanus and Heinrich Barth believed the name was derived from two Songhay words: Leo Africanus writes the Kingdom of Tombuto...

Caliphate Leo Africanus (c. 1494 – c. 1554?), Andalusian Berber Moorish diplomat and author Leo Burnett (1891–1971), American advertising executive Leo Fender...

in the coastal regions of Northwest Africa. The 16th century scholar Leo Africanus (c. 1494–1554) identified the Moors (Mauri) as the native Berber inhabitants...

Affrica ("Cosmography and geography of Africa") is a work completed by Leo Africanus March 10, 1526. The text from this work was taken by Giovambattista...

Look up africanus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Africanus is Latin for "African". It may refer to: Africanus Fabius Maximus, a Roman senator, the...

geographical work Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica completed by Leo Africanus in 1526 and published under the title Della descrittione dell’Africa...

the White Aethiopians. Medieval geographers, including Ibn Hawqal and Leo Africanus, similarly noted the existence of various "white" or "olive" groups...

are in Siljimasa in our country. This is why their towns are so big." Leo Africanus, who travelled to Morocco in the early 16th century, goes to the Tafilalt...

-4.531775 Leo Africanus uses the word 'Ghinea' for both a village and a large kingdom. The historian Pekka Masonen has suggested that Leo may be confusing...

A Contextual History, Cambridge University Press: 1996, pp. 51–52. Leo Africanus, "The inhabitants are extremely black, having great noses and blabber...

Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta and 16th century Andalusian traveller Leo Africanus. The other major source of information comes from Mandinka oral tradition...

(place)" may also be a root after establishment. The 16th century explorer Leo Africanus knew the city as Magadazo (alt. Magadoxo). The ancient city of Sarapion...

of the blacks", respectively. A competing theory, first forwarded by Leo Africanus in 1526, claims that "Guinea" is derived from Djenné (which he refers...

very large oil refinery near the capital. In the late 15th century, Leo Africanus reported an oasis in the land of the Berdoa, visited by a caravan coming...

hate speech under current South African law. The 16th century explorer Leo Africanus described the Cafri as non-Islamic "negroes", and one of five principal...

carried "a great distance" to be bartered for gold. In around 1510 Leo Africanus spent 3 days in Taghaza. In his Descrittione dell’Africa he mentions...

"black", Leo Africanus assumed the "Nile of the Blacks" (i.e. Senegal-Niger of the Arab traders) must be the Nigir of the ancients. See Leo Africanus, (Ital:...

centre in Africa. Several notable historic writers, such as Shabeni and Leo Africanus, have described Timbuktu. These stories fueled speculation in Europe...

then the Romans.[citation needed] In his book Description of Africa, Leo Africanus refers to ancient Casablanca as "Anfa", a great city founded in the...

Network in the area of Crafts and Folk Art since 2017. According to Leo Africanus, the name comes after the Goths bestowed the government of the town...

Geographical Historie of Africa, Moroccan author, traveler and diplomat Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi) wrote: THE ancient towne of...

what life under Christian rule was like. Amin Maalouf's 1986 novel Leo Africanus features a fictionalised version of the fatwa. In the novel, Muslim...

plover, lapwing and sandpiper, and to explain its curious behaviour. Leo Africanus mentions the story uncritically in his Description of Africa. Topsell...

flour. A recipe for asida that adds argan seed oil was documented by Leo Africanus (c. 1465–1550), the Arab explorer known as Hasan al-Wazan in the Arab...

previous wealth of the town. The Berber diplomat, traveller and author Leo Africanus visited the region in 1509–1510, and gives a description in his book...

reverted to Christianity and lived in Anatolia until he died in AD 645 Leo Africanus – Moorish diplomat who was converted to Christianity following his capture...

leading theorist of the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, and Leo Africanus. Pioneer scholars such as Muhammad al-Idrissi (d.1166 AD), Ibn al-Arabi...

Habesha cuisine contains many dishes that are vegan. Dress According to Leo Africanus, a greater number of the Abyssinians historically wore sheep hides,...