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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta : A Muslim Traveller of the 14th Century
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta A Muslim Traveller of the 14th Century Author:Ross E. Dunn 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. — "In 1325, at the age of twenty-one, Ibn Battut... more »a set off from his native Tangier on the hajj to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco until 1349, by which time he had visited not only Mecca, but also Egypt, Syria, Persia, Iraq, East Africa, the Yemen, Anatolia, the steppelands of southern Russia, Constantinople, India, the Maldives, Sumatra, and China. . . . An excellent synoptic introduction to the Muslim world in the Middle Ages." Times Literary Supplement« less