Ibn Al Ouardy

Abū Ḥafs Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar Ibn al-Wardī , known as Ibn al-Wardi, was an Arab geographer (died circa 1446, sometimes listed as late as 1457). He was the author of Kharīdat al-ʿAjā'ib wa farīdat al-gha'rāib (The Pearl of wonders and the Uniqueness of strange things), a geographical treatise with sections on natural history.

The name Abū Ḥafs Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar Ibn al-Wardī (ابن الوردي) may also refer to this man's grandfather (born in Maarat al-Numan, Syria, died ), a historian and poet known for his writings about the plague in Syria before his death. Their family descended from Caliph Abu Bakr. He wrote Tarikh Ibn al-Wardi (The History by Ibn al-Wardi).

The two men are often confused for each other, particularly in the western world. Gorton's biography, conflating the two, reads:An Arabian geographer and poet of eminence in the 14th century. In his youth he filled the office of deputy to the hakim, or principal judge of the city of Aleppo; but he quit the judicature to devote his time to the cultivation of science. He composed for the use of the governor of Aleppo, a curious treatise on geography, entitled "The Pearl of Wonders." He was also the author of an abridgment of the chronicle of Abufeda, poems, &c. His death took place in 1330. Several portions of his geographical work have been published by the literati of France and Germany. by Ibn Al-Wardi (Jr.) summed up the geographical knowledge of the Arabic world of the time, referring to climate, terrain, fauna and flora, population, way of living, existing states and their governments in individual regions of the world. The work was accompanied by a coloured world map and a picture of Ka'bah.

Although in the book al-Wardi credits al-Mas'udi, al-Tusi and several other sources, Mohamed Bencheneb claimed it is a plagiarism of a book by Egyptian writer Najm ad-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān ibn Shabib al-Ḥanbali, entitled Jāmi ʿal-Funūn wa-Salwat al-Maḥzūn.