Al-Andalusi (; alternatively ''Al Andalusi'', ''Al Andalousi'', ''El-Andaloussi,'' ''El Andaloussi'', ''Landoulsi'' or ''Landolsi'') is an

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

-language surname common in North African countries (mainly

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

and

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

) that literally means “the Andalusian”, and it denotes an origin or ancestry from

al-Andalus Al-Andalus () was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The name refers to the different Muslim states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492. At its greatest geographical extent, it occupied most o ...

(Arabic name of the

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) or from the modern-day region of

Andalusia Andalusia ( , ; , ) is the southernmost autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Peninsular Spain, located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomou ...

. Andalusian culture was heavily influenced by Syrian Arab culture, and most Arab tribes present in al-Andalus had a

Syrian Syrians () are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, most of whom have Arabic, especially its Levantine and Mesopotamian dialects, as a mother tongue. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend ...

Yemeni Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, the south-eastern part of the Arabian Sea to the east, the Gulf of Aden to the south ...

origin. Al-Andalusi may refer to: *

Ibn Arabi Ibn Arabi (July 1165–November 1240) was an Andalusian Sunni Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any successor and that his closest com ...

Maimonides Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (, ) and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (), was a Sephardic rabbi and Jewish philosophy, philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah schola ...

, Andalusian Sephardic Jewish rabbi and philosopher whose Arabic name was Abu ‘Imran Musa ibn Maymun ibn 'Ubaydallah al-Qurṭubi al-Andalusi al-‘Isra'ili from Córdoba *

Avempace Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyà ibn aṣ-Ṣā’igh at-Tūjībī ibn Bājja (), known simply as Ibn Bajja () or his Latinized name Avempace (; – 1138), was an Arab polymath, whose writings include works regarding astronomy, physic ...

Ibn Rushd Ibn Rushd (14 April 112611 December 1198), archaically Latinized as Averroes, was an Arab Muslim polymath and jurist from Al-Andalus who wrote about many subjects, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, math ...

, more often latinized as ''Averroes'' * Ibn Tufayl al-Qaysi al-Andalusi, Andalusian Muslim polymath * Abu as-Salt al-Andalusi, known in Latin as Albuzale, was an Andalusian Arab polymath who wrote about pharmacology, geometry, Aristotelian physics, and astronomy *

Ibn Zuhr Abū Marwān ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Zuhr (), traditionally known by his Latinized name Avenzoar (; 1094–1162), was an Arab physician, surgeon, and poet. He was born at Seville in medieval Andalusia (present-day Spain), was a contemporary of A ...

, traditionally known by his Latinized name Avenzoar *

Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldun (27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 Hijri year, AH) was an Arabs, Arab Islamic scholar, historian, philosopher and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and cons ...

* Al-Qurtubi * Abu Hayyan al-Andalusi * Ibn al-Baraq al-Andalusi * Abu Madyan al-Andalusi, Andalusian Arab mystic, great Sufi master and the teacher of

* Ja'far ibn Ali ibn Hamdun al-Andalusi,

Fatimid The Fatimid Caliphate (; ), also known as the Fatimid Empire, was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimid dynasty, Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shi'a dynasty. Spanning a large area of North Africa ...

governor of M'Sila * Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi * Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī, also known as Ibn Saʿīd al-Andalusī, 12th-13th century

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geographer, historian and poet from

* Muhammad ibn Hani al-Andalusi al-Azdi, usually called Ibn Hani, was an Andalusian Isma'īlī Shī'ī poet and the chief court poet to the Fatimid Caliph al-Mu'izz * Ibn 'Abd al-Barr al-Namari al-Andalusi * Ibn al-Faradi * Ibn al-Baytar * Ibn Hayyan al-Andalusi *

Ibn Juzayy Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Juzayy Al Gharnati (), better known as Ibn Juzayy () was an Al-Andalus, Andalusian Sunni Muslim scholar of Arab origin. He was a distinguished Maliki Faqih, jurist, Principles of Islamic jurisprudence, legal theoretician, T ...

* Abu Hafs Umar al-Iqritishi * Ibn 'Atiyya * Al-Ghazal * Al-Sahili * Ibn al-Raqqam al-Andalusi * Ibn as-Saffar al-Andalusi * Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī *

Abu al-Walid al-Baji Abu al-Walid al-Baji, full name Sulayman ibn Khalaf ibn Saʿd (or Saʿdun) ibn Ayyub al-Qadi Abu al-Walid al-Tujaybi al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi al-Baji al-Tamimi al-Dhahabi al-Maliki (28 May 1013 – 21 December 1081), was a Sunni scholar from Beja ...

* (full name Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Lubbal al-Qurashi al-Andalusi), was an Andalusian Muslim scholar and Poet from

Jerez de la Frontera Jerez de la Frontera () or simply Jerez, also cited in old English-language sources as , is a city and Municipalities of Spain, municipality in the province of Cádiz in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Sp ...

(

: شريش) * Ibn al-Zaqqaq, sometimes wrongly called al-Mursi (fl. 12th century), Andalusi poet * Ibn Arfa’ Ra’s, whose fuller name was Burhān al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsa ibn Abī al-Qāsim al-Anṣārī al-Andalusī * Yaʿīsh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Andalusī al-Umawī * Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam, Andalusian Arab physician, musician and astrologer of the Islamic Golden Age who lived in Damascus, Syria *

Abu ʾl-Khayr al-Ishbīlī Abu ʾl-Khayr al-Ishbīlī ( 11th century), called al-Shajjār ('the arboriculturist'), was an Andalusī agronomist and the author of two Arabic works on agriculture and botany. Little is known of his life. He was born in Seville Seville ( ...

(fl. 11th century), agronomist * Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi al-Andalusi, Andalusian astronomer, astrologer and mathematician of the Islamic Golden Age * Recemundus (

: ''Rabi ibn Sid al-Usquf'' or ''Rabi ibn Zaid'', Castilian: ''Recemundo'') was the

Mozarab The Mozarabs (from ), or more precisely Andalusi Christians, were the Christians of al-Andalus, or the territories of Iberia under Muslim rule from 711 to 1492. Following the Umayyad conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania, the Christian ...

ic bishop of Elvira and secretary of the

caliph of Córdoba A caliphate ( ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with Khalifa, the title of caliph (; , ), a person considered a political–religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a leader of ...

in the mid-10th century *

Muhammad al-Idrisi Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti, or simply al-Idrisi (; ; 1100–1165), was an Arab Muslim geographer and cartographer who served in the court of King Roger II at Palermo, Sicily. Muhammad al-Idrisi was born in C ...

, Muslim geographer and cartographer * Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Muslim judge and scholar of Maliki law from al-Andalus * al-Ishbili Abu Muhammad Jabir ibn Aflah (1100–1150), Muslim astronomer and mathematician *Abu Zakariya al-Ishbili, called

Ibn al-'Awwam Ibn al-'Awwam (), also called Abu Zakariya Ibn al-Awwam (), was an Al-Andalus agriculturist who flourished at Seville (modern-day southern Spain) in the later 12th century. He wrote a lengthy handbook on agriculture entitled in Arabic '' Kitāb al ...

(fl. late 12th century), Muslim agriculturalist * Abū Isḥāq al-Biṭrūjī al-Ishbīlī (died c. 1204), Muslim astronomer and judge * Ibn al-Ha'im al-Ishbili (fl. c. 1213), Muslim astronomer and mathematician * Abou Haggag Youssef ibn Mohammed el-Balawi el-Andaloussi, 12th-13th Century Andalusian Islamic scholar and linguist who made a detailed description of the Lighthouse of Alexandria in 1166 when he visited the city on his way to make Hajj (pilgrimage) * Ali Ben Ibrahim Al Andaloussibr>[fr
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