The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth CenturyKnown as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of extraordinary journeys that spanned nearly three decades and took him not only eastward to India and China but also north to the Volga River valley and south to Tanzania. The narrative of these travels has been known to specialists in Islamic and medieval history for years. Ross E. Dunn's 1986 retelling of these tales, however, was the first work of scholarship to make the legendary traveler's story accessible to a general audience. Now updated with revisions, a new preface, and an updated bibliography, Dunn's classic interprets Ibn Battuta's adventures and places them within the rich, trans-hemispheric cultural setting of medieval Islam. |
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... Arabic . Photo by the Author . University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles , California 1986 , 2005 by Ross E. Dunn First Paperback Printing 1989 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Dunn , Ross E. The ...
... Arabic . Photo by the Author . University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles , California 1986 , 2005 by Ross E. Dunn First Paperback Printing 1989 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Dunn , Ross E. The ...
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... Arabian Sea in a two - masted dhow or leading his horse over a snow - covered pass in the Hindu Kush , Ibn Battuta could not have dreamed of the speed and intensity of human inter- change today . Even since 1987 , when the first edition ...
... Arabian Sea in a two - masted dhow or leading his horse over a snow - covered pass in the Hindu Kush , Ibn Battuta could not have dreamed of the speed and intensity of human inter- change today . Even since 1987 , when the first edition ...
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... Arabs . It occurred to me that the life of Abu ' Abdallah ibn Battuta , the famous Moroccan traveler of the ... Arabic narrative began to appear in Western languages , Ibn Battuta has been well known among specialists in Islamic and ...
... Arabs . It occurred to me that the life of Abu ' Abdallah ibn Battuta , the famous Moroccan traveler of the ... Arabic narrative began to appear in Western languages , Ibn Battuta has been well known among specialists in Islamic and ...
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... Arabic class . I have come to this project , however , with a modest training in that beautiful and intractable language . I have used printed Arabic editions of the Rihla to clarify various prob- lems of nomenclature and textual ...
... Arabic class . I have come to this project , however , with a modest training in that beautiful and intractable language . I have used printed Arabic editions of the Rihla to clarify various prob- lems of nomenclature and textual ...
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... Arabic terms ( e.g. , " Koran " rather than " Qur'an " and " vizier " rather than " vizir " or " wazir " ) . In transliterating Arabic terms , I have eliminated all diacritical marks , excepting " ' " to indicate the two Arabic letters ...
... Arabic terms ( e.g. , " Koran " rather than " Qur'an " and " vizier " rather than " vizir " or " wazir " ) . In transliterating Arabic terms , I have eliminated all diacritical marks , excepting " ' " to indicate the two Arabic letters ...
Contents
Tangier | 13 |
The Maghrib | 27 |
The Mamluks | 41 |
Mecca | 65 |
Persia and Iraq | 81 |
The Arabian Sea | 106 |
Anatolia | 137 |
The Steppe | 159 |
Malabar and the Maldives | 213 |
China | 241 |
Home | 266 |
Mali | 290 |
The Rihla | 310 |
Glossary | 321 |
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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 - 2005 |
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