al-Bakrī, Abū ʿUbayd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ducène, Jean-Charles
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Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbdallāh al-Bakrī (d. 487/1094) was an Andalusian Arab writer of the fifth/eleventh century known for his literary and geographical works. He was probably born in the second decade of the eleventh century C.E., on the island of Saltés. He belonged to a princely family who ruled over the principality of Huelva and Saltés during the period of anarchy following the fall of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain, in 422/1031. When his father was driven out of his estate by al-Muʿtaḍiḍ, king of