The Odyssey Of Ibn Battuta

Author : David Waines
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781780763606
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta written by David Waines and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ibn Batuta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Batūta written by Ibn Batuta and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, with notes illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work. By the Rev. S. Lee.

Author : Ross E. Dunn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520243854
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Ibn Battuta written by Ross E. Dunn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ross Dunn's classic retelling of the travels of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim of the 14th century.

Author : Ibn Batuta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108041973
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Batūta written by Ibn Batuta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 1829 English edition of the work of the Arab traveller Ibn Battuta (1304-68/9), whose journeys may have reached as far as China and Zanzibar. There is doubt as to whether Ibn Battuta actually saw everything he described, but this account gives a fascinating world-view from the medieval period.

Author : Ibn Fadlan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141975040
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness written by Ibn Fadlan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322882
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An African in Greenland written by Tété-Michel Kpomassie and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001-10-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland—and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all.

Author : David Waines
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900419441X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Culture and Health in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies written by David Waines and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : A. C. S. Peacock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499368
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia written by A. C. S. Peacock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466829303
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trickster Travels written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work. In Trickster Travels, Davis describes all the sectors of her hero's life in rich detail, scrutinizing the evidence of al-Hasan's movement between cultural worlds; the Islamic and Arab traditions, genres, and ideas available to him; and his adventures with Christians and Jews in a European community of learned men and powerful church leaders. In depicting the life of this adventurous border-crosser, Davis suggests the many ways cultural barriers are negotiated and diverging traditions are fused.

Author : Edoardo Albert
Publisher : A Concise Life
ISBN 13 : 9781847740472
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ibn Battuta written by Edoardo Albert and published by A Concise Life. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.