The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th CenturyStudie over leven en werk van de Arabische ontdekkingsreiziger Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Baṭūtah (1304-1368/9). |
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... Mediterranean . This was the first great age of Europe's economic development , and although trade between Christian and Muslim states grew by leaps , virtually all of it was carried in Latin vessels . In the western sea the Genoese ...
... Mediterranean . This was the first great age of Europe's economic development , and although trade between Christian and Muslim states grew by leaps , virtually all of it was carried in Latin vessels . In the western sea the Genoese ...
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... Mediterranean . Tunis maintained close commercial ties with Egypt by way of Muslim coastal and overland trade and was well placed to serve as a major emporium for Christian merchants of the Western Mediterranean who found it a ...
... Mediterranean . Tunis maintained close commercial ties with Egypt by way of Muslim coastal and overland trade and was well placed to serve as a major emporium for Christian merchants of the Western Mediterranean who found it a ...
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... Mediterranean and Indian Ocean shipbuilding traditions were as different as the patterns of wind and climate . For one thing , he would probably not have seen any galleys , whose use in the Indian Ocean was confined mainly to pirate ...
... Mediterranean and Indian Ocean shipbuilding traditions were as different as the patterns of wind and climate . For one thing , he would probably not have seen any galleys , whose use in the Indian Ocean was confined mainly to pirate ...
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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century Ross E. Dunn Limited preview - 1989 |
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Ross E. Dunn Limited preview - 2004 |
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Ross E. Dunn Limited preview - 2005 |
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