من صحراء الجزائر في الكتابات الجغرافية و مدونات الرحالة المغاربة

Abstract EN

The desert of Algeria was unknown until the late stages of the Middle Ages, and the first geographers who refer to the description of its features and political and civilisation conditions, since the fifth century AH (eleventh century AD) was EL Bakri, and in the sixth century AH (12 th century) EL Idrissi, EL YaKoubi, Ibn said Elmaghribi Then Ibn Hawkal The Moroccan travelers, in particular, have studied in their travel bloggers the oases of the Algerian desert (Central Morocco).

They provided us with a rich material that could be used by the researchers to study the social, economic and cultural life of the Algerian Sahara, especially from the beginning of the sixteenth century until the end of the eighteenth century.

Including Ibn Battuta, Al Ayyashi, Al Zayani, Ibn Al-Haj al-Numeiri, Ben Abi Mahalli, Haj Ibn al-Din al-Aghawati and Ibn al-Wazzan (Lion of Africa).

In this paper I will try to address the Algerian Sahara in the light of the writings of the geographers and the bloggers of the Moroccan travelers, taking into account their features and their spatial and human characteristics