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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... and J. F. P. Hopkins ( eds . ) , Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History . For the sake of uniformity I have made a few orthographic changes in quotations from the Rihla translations . I have " americanized " Preface xv.
... and J. F. P. Hopkins ( eds . ) , Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History . For the sake of uniformity I have made a few orthographic changes in quotations from the Rihla translations . I have " americanized " Preface xv.
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... early Islamic centuries the weight of a gold dinar was set at 4.25 grams . In Ibn Battuta's time , however , the weight and fineness of both gold and silver coins , as well as the exchange rate between them , varied greatly from one ...
... early Islamic centuries the weight of a gold dinar was set at 4.25 grams . In Ibn Battuta's time , however , the weight and fineness of both gold and silver coins , as well as the exchange rate between them , varied greatly from one ...
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... Early Arabic Sources for West African History ( New York , 1981 ) MH Agha Mahdi Husain ( trans . and ed . ) . The Rehla of Ibn Battuta ( Baroda , India , 1976 ) Introduction Westerners have singularly narrowed the history of the world ...
... Early Arabic Sources for West African History ( New York , 1981 ) MH Agha Mahdi Husain ( trans . and ed . ) . The Rehla of Ibn Battuta ( Baroda , India , 1976 ) Introduction Westerners have singularly narrowed the history of the world ...
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... Early in 1356 Sultan Abu ' Inan , the Marinid ruler of Morocco , commissioned Ibn Juzayy , a young literary scholar of Andalusian origin , to record Ibn Battuta's experiences , as well as his ob- servations about the Islamic world of ...
... Early in 1356 Sultan Abu ' Inan , the Marinid ruler of Morocco , commissioned Ibn Juzayy , a young literary scholar of Andalusian origin , to record Ibn Battuta's experiences , as well as his ob- servations about the Islamic world of ...
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... early nineteenth century , when two German scholars published separately translations of portions of the Rihla from manuscripts obtained in the Middle East . In 1829 Samuel Lee , a British orientalist , published an English translation ...
... early nineteenth century , when two German scholars published separately translations of portions of the Rihla from manuscripts obtained in the Middle East . In 1829 Samuel Lee , a British orientalist , published an English translation ...
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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