The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
Ross E. Dunn
History
James Mustich
Aug 1, 2018
In June 1325, twenty-one-year-old Abu ’Abdallah Muhammad Ibn Battuta left his home in Tangier and set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Although that not inconsiderable journey would take a year, it proved to be only the first step in Ibn Battuta’s life of unparalleled peregrination. Over the next three decades, he traveled more than seventy-five thousand miles almost entirely by land, visiting Egypt and Persia, Samarkand and Constantinople, Sumatra and modern Tanzania, the Crimea and the southern steppes of Russia, Granada and Mali, even India, Ceylon, and China. Using Ibn Battuta’s own account of his journeys as his primary source, Ross E. Dunn chronicles his insatiably curious subject’s exploits as scholar, diplomat, companion of royalty, even as a victim of pirates. But he also draws on history outside of the Rihlah to place its protagonist in a rich cultural context, creating a complex history of the vibrant and sophisticated Muslim world Ibn Battuta traversed.
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Jeremy Johnson
Jul 10, 2024
Important Medieval Islamic thinker. Breaks us out of "great white man European" syndrome.
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Jessica
Dec 12, 2024
classic
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