Maḥmūd Saʻdanī

Mahmud Sadani is a Egyptian writer, author and traveler. He was born in the city of Buraidah, and he was taught by a number of scholars. Then he worked as a teacher, then director of the Scientific Institute in Buraidah, next he became the Secretary-General of the Islamic University of Madinah for thirteen years. Later, he became an agent of the same university and then its director, then he held the position of assistant general secretary of the Muslim World League. Before that, at the Islamic University of Madinah when he was a general secretary, so he visited most parts of the world. He published more than one hundred and sixty books in travel literature, this has set a record for the Arab travel books. He was awarded the Medal of Merit in Literature in 1974.