Al-Andalusi

Al-Andalusi (Arabic: الأندلسي; alternatively Al Andalusi, Al Andalousi, El-Andaloussi, El Andaloussi, Landoulsi or Landolsi) is an Arabic-language surname common in North African countries (mainly Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) that literally means “the Andalusi/Andalusian”, and it denotes an origin or ancestry from al-Andalus (Arabic name of the Iberian Peninsula) or from the modern-day region of Andalusia. Andalusian culture was heavily influenced by Syrian Arab culture, and most Arab tribes present in al-Andalus had a Syrian or Yemeni origin. Al-Andalusi may refer to:

• Ibn Arabi
• Maimonides, 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
• Ibn Rushd, 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, traditionally known by his Latinized name Avenzoar
• Ibn Khaldun
• 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 Ibn Arabi
• Ja'far ibn Ali ibn Hamdun al-Andalusi, Fatimid governor of M'Sila
• Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi
• Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī, also known as Ibn Saʿīd al-Andalusī, 12th-13th century Arab geographer, historian and poet from al-Andalus
• 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
• 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
• Ibn Lubbal al-Sharishi (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 (Arabic: 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 (fl. 11th century), agronomist
• Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi al-Andalusi, Andalusian astronomer, astrologer and mathematician of the Islamic Golden Age
• Recemundus (Arabic: Rabi ibn Sid al-Usquf or Rabi ibn Zaid, Castilian: Recemundo) was the Mozarabic bishop of Elvira and secretary of the caliph of Córdoba in the mid-10th century
• Muhammad al-Idrisi, 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 (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 Andaloussi (d. 1654), Moroccan doctor and teacher of medicine during the Saadian period
• Hadj Moussa Jamiro al-Andaloussi al-Garnati, architect of the Borj el Wistani fort at Ghar El Melh
• Abu 'Imran Musa Musa ibn Ṭubi al-Ishbili (fl. 14th century), Jewish Arabic poet
• Abbad Jawad El Andaloussi
• Mohammad Abbad El Andaloussi
• Ahmed Landolsi, Tunisian actor
• Nouha Landoulsi, Tunisian weightlifter

See also

• Andalusi (disambiguation)
• Andalusia (disambiguation)
• Andalusian (disambiguation)