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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... Muhammad al - ' Abdari , I have seen no new research that significantly alters what we know about the Rihla or Ibn Battuta's life.6 Some new work , however , has of- fered insights on the Rihla's chronology , itinerary , and reliability ...
... Muhammad al - ' Abdari , I have seen no new research that significantly alters what we know about the Rihla or Ibn Battuta's life.6 Some new work , however , has of- fered insights on the Rihla's chronology , itinerary , and reliability ...
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... Muhammad and his followers made the hijra , or " migration , " from Mecca to Medina . The abbreviation A.H. , for anno Hejirae , denotes years of the Muslim calendar . In this book I have given key dates according to both calendars ...
... Muhammad and his followers made the hijra , or " migration , " from Mecca to Medina . The abbreviation A.H. , for anno Hejirae , denotes years of the Muslim calendar . In this book I have given key dates according to both calendars ...
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... Muhammad Tughluq , Sultan of Delhi . In 1341 the king appointed him to lead a diploma- tic mission to the court of the Mongol emperor of China . The expedition ended disastrously in shipwreck off the southwestern coast of India ...
... Muhammad Tughluq , Sultan of Delhi . In 1341 the king appointed him to lead a diploma- tic mission to the court of the Mongol emperor of China . The expedition ended disastrously in shipwreck off the southwestern coast of India ...
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... century in connection with the explosion of Arabic - speaking , horse - mounted warriors out of the Arabian desert under the leadership of the Prophet Muhammad and his successors . Western historical writing has 8 Introduction.
... century in connection with the explosion of Arabic - speaking , horse - mounted warriors out of the Arabian desert under the leadership of the Prophet Muhammad and his successors . Western historical writing has 8 Introduction.
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A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Ross E. Dunn. Prophet Muhammad and his successors . Western historical writing has given a great deal of attention to the early evolution of Islamic civilization , that is , the " classical ...
A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Ross E. Dunn. Prophet Muhammad and his successors . Western historical writing has given a great deal of attention to the early evolution of Islamic civilization , that is , the " classical ...
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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