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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... merchants , scholars , and theologians within which he moved dur- ing 29 years on the road . Since the mid nineteenth century , when translations of his Arabic narrative began to appear in Western languages , Ibn Battuta has been well ...
... merchants , scholars , and theologians within which he moved dur- ing 29 years on the road . Since the mid nineteenth century , when translations of his Arabic narrative began to appear in Western languages , Ibn Battuta has been well ...
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... merchants of all origins and religions to travel and conduct business in their domains . Marco does indeed herald the age of European discovery , not because the peoples of Asia somehow needed discovering to set themselves on a course ...
... merchants of all origins and religions to travel and conduct business in their domains . Marco does indeed herald the age of European discovery , not because the peoples of Asia somehow needed discovering to set themselves on a course ...
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... merchants into the lands rimming the Indian Ocean , that is , East Africa , India , Southeast Asia , and China , as well as into Central Asia and West Africa south of the Sahara . Yet the principal contribution of both warriors and ...
... merchants into the lands rimming the Indian Ocean , that is , East Africa , India , Southeast Asia , and China , as well as into Central Asia and West Africa south of the Sahara . Yet the principal contribution of both warriors and ...
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... merchants , scholars , and skilled , literate individuals of all kinds regarded the jurisdictions of states as a necessary imposition and gave them as little attention as possible . Their primary allegiance was to the Dar al - Islam as ...
... merchants , scholars , and skilled , literate individuals of all kinds regarded the jurisdictions of states as a necessary imposition and gave them as little attention as possible . Their primary allegiance was to the Dar al - Islam as ...
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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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