AI MAGHREB MARKETS IN THE NOVEIS OF AL IDRiSi (559H)

Abstract

. In  our follow-up to the narratives of Al-Idrisi (d. 559 AH) about the markets, we see that most of them carry abundant information that indicates the importance of these markets, and the commercial exchange they achieved between the markets of the Islamic Maghreb and the East. Wool, honey, oil and other trades and luggage, in addition to what became clear to us the features of Al-Idrisi's personality in his accurate descriptions, and thus his author became an important reference for all generations, whether he was in the East or the Islamic Maghreb, as he drew his narratives from viewing, not theorizing. Since the markets represent the prosperity of the economic aspect and the pole on which the prosperity and well-being of countries revolves, the historian and geographer Sharif Al-Idrisi paid great care in embodying the markets of Morocco in his narratives in terms of their distribution in villages, cities, and then regions in a sequential manner, alone from his peers, while these markets enjoyed diversity The crops and yields in it, as well as the industries in which it is spent, and the trades that are brought to it and carried from it. Although Al-Idrisi did not mention in his book the names of the markets in Morocco - except for a few of them - as is the case with the traveler Ibn Battuta (d. 779 AH / 1399 CE) when he mentions the market of engravers and paperworkers, the horse market, the market of glass makers and cooks, and many others, but Al-Idrisi had identified them within the paper. It must be noted that the researcher did not dwell on the biography of al-Idrisi because the study came to shed light on the markets in his narratives and not others research