约翰尼斯·利奥·阿非利加努斯（拉丁语：Joannes Leo Africanus[1]），（1495年—1550年），本名哈桑·伊本·穆罕默德·瓦赞（al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan）[2][3]，文艺复兴时期欧洲旅行家。为来自西班牙穆斯林王国格拉纳达的摩里斯科人，曾遍游现在的非洲北部，并达到近东地区。[4]他的游记于16世纪时得到翻译出版。[5]
Black, Crofton. Leo Africanus's Descrittione dell'Africa and its sixteenth-century translations. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 2002, 65: 262–272. JSTOR 4135111. S2CID 190220063. doi:10.2307/4135111.
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Fisher, Humphrey J., Leo Africanus and the Songhay conquest of Hausaland, International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston University African Studies Center), 1978, 11 (1): 86–112, JSTOR 217055, doi:10.2307/217055. Link requires subscription to Jstor.
Rauchenberger, Dietrich, Johannes Leo der Afrikaner: seine Beschreibung des Raumes zwischen Nil und Niger nach dem Urtext, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999, ISBN 3-447-04172-2.
Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, written in Arabicke and Italian. Before which is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and a particular treatise of all the lands undescribed. Translated and collected by John Pory, London: G. Bishop, 1600. The first translation into English.
Leo Africanus, The History and Description of Africa (3 Vols), Brown, Robert, editor, London: Hakluyt Society, 1896. Internet Archive: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3. The original text of Pory's 1600 English translation together with an introduction and notes by the editor.
Davis, Natalie Zemon, Trickster Travels: a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds, New York: Hill and Wang, 2007, ISBN 0-8090-9435-5.
Jean-Léon l'Africain, Description de l'Afrique: Nouvelle édition traduite de l'italien par Alexis Épaulard et annotée par Alexis Épaulard, Théodore Monod, Henri Lhote et Raymond Mauny (2 Vols), Paris: Maisonneuve, 1956. A scholarly translation into French with extensive notes.
Hunwick, John O., Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sadi's Tarikh al-Sudan down to 1613 and other contemporary documents, Leiden: Brill, 1999, ISBN 90-04-11207-3 Pages 272-291 contain a translation into English of Leo Africanus's descriptions of the Middle Niger, Hausaland and Bornu. Corresponds to Épaulard 1956 Vol II pages 463-481.
Masonen, Pekka, The Negroland revisited: Discovery and invention of the Sudanese middle ages, Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters: 167–207, 2000, ISBN 951-41-0886-8.
