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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Contents
Region of the Strait of Gibraltar | 14 |
Ibn Battutas Itinerary in Persia and Iraq 132627 82 | 27 |
Ibn Battutas Itinerary in Arabia and East Africa | 107 |
Ibn Battutas Itinerary in Anatolia and the Black | 138 |
Ibn Battutas Itinerary in Central Asia and Afghanistan | 175 |
Ibn Battutas Itinerary in Southeast Asia and China | 256 |
Ibn Battutas Itinerary in North Africa Spain and West | 277 |
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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 - 2004 |
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