وقفة تاريخية مع رحلة عبد الرزاق بن حمادوش

Abstract EN

The art of journey is considered as a literary prose color with story character; aimed at streamlining that variety of news configuration, between political news and social news, economic action, presentation of the author's personal status and views on events, facts and attractions of interest during the travelers' movement while covering a different manifestations of life that sometimes he sees or hears and transports them on his journey, and no doubt that the travelers disagree in the accuracy of their observations, their degree of interest and the kind of interest.

What is striking about Ibn Hamadoush's journey is that it contributed to providing many observations, facts and news about its owner, who was bold and not afraid to discuss with his contemporaries.

And about the conditions of his time, which were characterized by the spread of drought, famine and epidemics such as the plague that killed many residents of the city of Algiers in 1716 AD, the countryside revolution in the Far Maghreb, commercial recession, high prices and high taxes, a decline in the level of education, closing the door of diligence and suffice with copying and his attempt, like other scholars, to revolutionize the conditions of his time.

Engaging in sciences such as medicine, pharmacology, astronomy, arithmetic, engineering and others.