Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 / Ibn Battúta ; [translated and selected by H.A.R. Gibb].

By:

Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377

Contributor(s):

Gibb, H. A. R. (Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen), 1895-1971

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Broadway travellers ; 18.Publication details: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203340442
9780203340448
1134285647
9781134285648
1280291427
9781280291425
9786610291427
661029142X
1134285639
9781134285631

Uniform titles:

Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʼib al-amṣār wa-ʻajāʼib al-asfār. Selections. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354.DDC classification:

915.0424092 22

LOC classification:

G490 .I2 2005eb

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Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Introduction; Book I; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Book II; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; Chapter IX; Chapter X; Chapter XI; Chapter XII; Chapter XIII; Chapter XIV; Notes; Index of Geographical Names; Index of Personal Names, Etc.

Summary: 'One of the most fascinating travel books of all time' Times Literary Supplement 'He could not have been more 'modern' if he had been born in the twentieth century' Evening Standard Ibn Battuta was the only medieval traveller who is known to have visited the lands of every Muhammadan ruler of his time and the extent of his journeys is estimated to be at least 75,000 miles. His work presents a descriptive account of Muhammadan society in the second quarter of the fourteenth century, which illustrates, among other things, how wide the sphere of influence of the Muslim m.

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Facsim. of ed. published: 1929.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-383) and indexes.

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'One of the most fascinating travel books of all time' Times Literary Supplement 'He could not have been more 'modern' if he had been born in the twentieth century' Evening Standard Ibn Battuta was the only medieval traveller who is known to have visited the lands of every Muhammadan ruler of his time and the extent of his journeys is estimated to be at least 75,000 miles. His work presents a descriptive account of Muhammadan society in the second quarter of the fourteenth century, which illustrates, among other things, how wide the sphere of influence of the Muslim m.

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