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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... Islamic civiliz- ation . He toured not only the central regions of Islam but also its far frontiers in India , Indonesia , Central Asia , East Africa , and the West African Sudan . The travel book he produced at the end of his career is ...
... Islamic civiliz- ation . He toured not only the central regions of Islam but also its far frontiers in India , Indonesia , Central Asia , East Africa , and the West African Sudan . The travel book he produced at the end of his career is ...
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... Islamic civilization are our primary theme rather than the admittedly great cultural diversity among Muslim peoples , even though one of the strengths of an expanding Islam was its successful adaptability to local patterns of culture ...
... Islamic civilization are our primary theme rather than the admittedly great cultural diversity among Muslim peoples , even though one of the strengths of an expanding Islam was its successful adaptability to local patterns of culture ...
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... Islam , 1st edn . , 4 vols . ( Leiden , 1913-38 ) Encyclopaedia of Islam , 2nd edn . , 5 vols . ( Leiden , 1954 ; London , 1956- ) H.A. R. Gibb ( trans . and ed . ) , The Travels of Ibn Battuta A.D. 1325-1354 . Translated with Revisions ...
... Islam , 1st edn . , 4 vols . ( Leiden , 1913-38 ) Encyclopaedia of Islam , 2nd edn . , 5 vols . ( Leiden , 1954 ; London , 1956- ) H.A. R. Gibb ( trans . and ed . ) , The Travels of Ibn Battuta A.D. 1325-1354 . Translated with Revisions ...
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... Islamic world of his day , in the form of a rihla , or book of travels . As a type of Arabic literature , the rihla attained something of a flowering in North Africa between ... Islam.3 Ibn Battuta and Ibn Juzayy collaborated Introduction 3.
... Islamic world of his day , in the form of a rihla , or book of travels . As a type of Arabic literature , the rihla attained something of a flowering in North Africa between ... Islam.3 Ibn Battuta and Ibn Juzayy collaborated Introduction 3.
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A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Ross E. Dunn. great cities of Islam.3 Ibn Battuta and Ibn Juzayy ... Islamic countries until the early nineteenth century , when two German scholars published separately translations of portions ...
A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Ross E. Dunn. great cities of Islam.3 Ibn Battuta and Ibn Juzayy ... Islamic countries until the early nineteenth century , when two German scholars published separately translations of portions ...
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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