![]() ![]() This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1971. Read reviews and buy The Travels of IBN Battuta - (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure) by Ibn Battuta (Paperback) at Target. During his travels, the Black Death was killing thousands of people. He then travelled through North Africa to Timbuktu. This volume covers Turkestan, Khurasan, Sind, north-western India and Delhi, including an account of the reign of Sultan Muhammad ibn Tughluq. Ibn Battuta also visited Sri Lanka, China and modern Syria. The index to all four parts is provided in Second Series 190. The first part is Second Series 110, and the fourth Second Series 178. Looking for books by Ibn Battuta See all books authored by Ibn Battuta, including Travels In Asia And Africa, 1325 1354, and Ibn Batutta in Black Africa. Continued from Second Series 117, with continuous pagination. Translated with revisions and new annotation from the Arabic text edited by C. Leaving his native city of Tangier in 1326, he traveled over the next several years to East Africa, Byzantium, Iraq, southern Russia, India, Ceylon, and China. The observations of this intelligent representative of Islamic culture on almost all the known inhabited world beyond Europe provide fruitful comparisons with the life and geographical knowledge of the West. The only medieval traveler known to have visited the lands of every Muslim ruler of his time, Ibn Battuta was born into a family of highly respected religious judges and educated as a theologian. The travels are a major source for the political and economic life of large regions of Asia and Africa. In one instant he talks of the sea divers he meets off the coast of Persia and. This first complete and scholarly edition in English has proved essential to orientalists and illuminating to medievalists. The book is about Ibn Battuta a resident of Tangiers (morocco), which I never knew, who travels across the middle-east and all the way across India all the way to China and back He wrote this based on his travels from 1325 till 1354. Sir Hamilton Gibb's edition comprises four volumes with introduction and full notes. There are detailed descriptions of the towns on the way and the customs of the inhabitants. Ibn Batuta Ibn Battutah The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Macmillan Collectors Library, 84) Paperback 6 June 2003 by Ibn Battutah (Author), Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Editor) 449 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 984.00 17 New from 845.00 Paperback 491.00 26 New from 467. ![]() ![]() In this volume he visits Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The first two volumes recorded Ibn Battuta's earliest journeys through Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, Iraq, Asia Minor and South Russia. His journeys are estimated to have covered over 75,000 miles and he is the only medieval traveller known to have visited every Muslim state of the time, besides the 'infidel' countries of Istanbul, Ceylon and China. On a separate voyage he crossed the Sahara to the Muslim lands of West Africa. Between 13 he journeyed through North Africa and Asia Minor and as far as China. ![]()
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