دور الجغرافيا المغاربية في تصحيح معارف أوروبا حول إفريقيا : كتاب "وصف إفريقيا" للحسن الوزان الفاسيLéon L’Africain)‎)‎ أنموذجا

Abstract EN

"The description of Africa" book was published in the middle of the sixteen century in Rome; it represented a milestone in the history of European scholarly knowledge since that book contributed in liberating Africa from classic European representations that depicted it as continent full of natural and human contradictions.

Africa was considered as a piece of hell because of its extreme heat and its incubation of groups of human beings that had not yet reached the stage of humanism.

In fact this is what explained why no genuine civilizations were as it happened in Asia and Europe.

The European representations had gradually changed since the European writers and geographers were exposed to al Hassan el Wazzan el Fessi' s book, in which revealed, based on a number of Arab sources and his own knowledge of the continent' s news.

The unjustified European representations highlighting the rooted human phenomenon in Africa and studying its different regions, resources, cultural, natural, material and human characteristics.

All this urged the Europeans to adjust the image of Africa and restudy it from a new angle.