In an extraordinary breach of the Islamic State's culture of unquestioning obedience, an IS writer calling himself Ibn Jubayr has penned a series of five scathing articles leveling direct and ...

and poet Abul Husayn Muhammad Ibn Ahmad ibn Jubayr visited Damascus. On entering the city, he famously said: "if paradise is on the earth then Damascus without a doubt is in it. If it is in the ...

One of the earliest surviving first-person accounts of the Hajj is by the Spanish Arab geographer Ibn Jubayr and dates to the late 1100s, a period marked by turmoil in the Middle East amid the ...

The Andalusian traveler Ibn Jubayr, born in 539 AH/1145 AD, is one of the most famous Muslim travelers who were interested in writing about Ramadan in their books. Since his early childhood, he ...