The author of this book is the teacher Asad Al -Bahr Shihab Al -Din Ahmed bin Majid bin Muhammad Al -Saadi Al -Najdi, from Najd Oman, and the tourist is said to him as Majid, and he is one of the artists of navigation and his history among the Arabs, and from the great Arab Rababneh in the Red Sea, the Arabian Gulf, the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal and the Sea of ​​China . Ibn Majid was born in the year 821 AH, we find Oman in a family that cares about the sea, so his father and his grandfather were famous navigators, and Ibn Majid Al -Fadl in establishing the navigation rules for the world, and his views and ideas in the field of navigation remained prevailing in both the Red Sea, the Arabian Gulf and the Sea of ​​China. He is the first to write in modern maritime guides, and classified (the benefits in the origins of sea science and bases), and an argument that he called (the abbreviation container in the origins of sea science), (the seven argument), (the poem called the gift) and (Arjuza Bar Arab in the Gulf of Faris), And (anchors on the West India coast) and other messages.