The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta

Author: David Waines
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781780763606
Category : Islamic Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers. Born in 14th century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta has left us an account in his own words of his remarkable journeys throughout the Islamic world and beyond.

The Travels of Ibn Batūta

Author: Ibn Batuta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description

The Travels of Ibn Battuta

Author: Ibn Battuta
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486123049
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
An engrossing account of a 1326 pilgrimage to Mecca provides vivid details of Morocco, Russia, India, China, and elsewhere. "The ultimate in real life adventure stories." — History in Review.

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta

Author: Ross E. Dunn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520243854
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 395

Book Description
Ross Dunn's classic retelling of the travels of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim of the 14th century.

Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness

Author: Ibn Fadlan
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141975040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation. Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes and peoples they encountered traded furs, paid tribute and waged wars. This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the far north.

Ibn Battuta

Author: Edoardo Albert
Publisher: A Concise Life
ISBN: 9781847740472
Category : Islamic Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This introduction to medieval-age Battuta and his journey provides a fascinating window into what the world was like in the 14th century with illustrations, photographs, and maps that bring the rich and diverse world that produced Battuta to vivid life. Illustrations.

Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia

Author: A. C. S. Peacock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.

Food Culture and Health in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies

Author: David Waines
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900419441X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
This book brings together edited articles from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam that are relevant to food culture, health, diet, and medicine in pre-Islamic Muslim societies.

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta

Author: Ross E. Dunn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520272927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta

Author: Ross E. Dunn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520951611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400