The Adventures of Ibn Battuta

A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century

Ross E. Dunn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

379 Seiten

2004 | Revised edition
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-24385-9 (ISBN)

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Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of extraordinary journeys that spanned nearly three decades and took him not only eastward to India and China but also north to the Volga River valley and south to Tanzania. The narrative of these travels has been known to specialists in Islamic and medieval history for years. Ross E. Dunn's 1986 retelling of these tales, however, was the first work of scholarship to make the legendary traveler's story accessible to a general audience. Now updated with revisions, a new preface, and an updated bibliography, Dunn's classic interprets Ibn Battuta's adventures and places them within the rich, trans-hemispheric cultural setting of medieval Islam.

Ross E. Dunn is Professor of History, San Diego State University, and the editor of The New World History: A Teacher's Companion (2000).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.12.2004
Zusatzinfo	15 b/w photographs, 12 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	0-520-24385-4 / 0520243854
ISBN-13	978-0-520-24385-9 / 9780520243859
Zustand	Neuware