لَمَحَاتٌ من الأوضاع السياسية والاقتصادية والاجتماعية في ليبيا من خلال مخطوط الرّحْلَة الحجَازيَّة لابن عبد القادر الفاسي 1211-1212هـ/1796-1797م

Abstract

Travel books gained special importance in the process of historical writing and at revealing the history of peoples and nations. Moreover, Libya had a large share of writings on these travels, especially the Hejaz-Moroccan Journeys to the Holy Lands. Whereas the cities and villages of Libya were always landing stations for the people of these trips and provided supplies for them on their way to the Hijaz. In this article, we aim to benefit from one of these journeys in revealing part of the history of Libya, which is the Hijazi journey of Ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Fassi. In addition, the book on this journey is still is still an unpublished manuscript. Moreover, by using the historical inductive method, which depends on quote historical texts from its sources, then extrapolate it, understand it, elicit information it and use it afterwards, the study was able to identify the Glimpses of the political, economic and social conditions of Libya through the notes made by the traveler in his manuscript. The study also concluded, after its completion, that the author's information about this topic was accurate, abundant, and rich in details that we did not find it in other Journeys, Which made this journey, is distinctive and its manuscript is important. Finally, the study ended with a recommendation to those interested in Libyan history to increase interest in the manuscript of this journey and work on extracting what it contains at historical material, It is useful in revealing another topic that this study did not address, Especially that Ibn Abdul al-Qadir did not forget it from his previews and distinguished comments.