Anthropology among Muslim travelers and geographers

Abstract

This study came to overcome an ideological problem at the beginning of the emergence of anthropology among Muslims, and an attempt by us to collect signs of ideas, theories, and contributions of Muslim geographers in this science, and their intellectual attempts to present cultural knowledge aimed at achieving social and ethnological thought, and contributing to the knowledge of the other. We cannot fail in this regard to draw attention to the fact that the first advances of this science appeared among some ancient peoples, most notably the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Chinese, and the Romans. Accordingly; Muslims had their own role and age in this field, and a large number of travelers appeared from them who presented in their books the cultures and customs they witnessed with other nations, and also presented many theories in this science, and if they were not aware that they had invented a new science, it was It has a huge impact on Europe and the whole world.