Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad Explained

Khashkhash ibn Saeed ibn Aswad (Arabic: خَشْخَاش ٱبْن سَعِيد ٱبْن أَسْوَد, ; born in Pechina, Andalusia) was an Andalusian navigator.

According to Muslim historian Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Mas'udi (871-957), Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad sailed over the Atlantic Ocean and discovered a previously unknown land (, Arabic: أرض مجهولة). In his book The Meadows of Gold, al-Mas'udi writes that Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad, from Delba (Palos de la Frontera) sailed into the Atlantic Ocean in 889 and returned with a shipload of valuable treasures.^{[1] [2]}

Ali al-Masudi, in his historical account The Meadows of Gold (947 CE), wrote:

The same passage, in Aloys Sprenger's 1841 English translation, is interpreted by some authors^[3] to imply that Ali al-Masudi regarded the story of Khoshkhash to be a fanciful tale:

See also

• Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact

Bibliography

• Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masu'di (Masoudi) (ca. 895?-957 CE), The Book of Golden Meadows, c. 940 CE

Notes and References

1. Tabish Khair (2006). Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing, p. 12. Signal Books.
2. [Ali al-Masudi]
3. Web site: Did Columbus Find an Ancient Mosque in Cuba?. June 22, 2013. Jason Colavito.