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The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta

Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer

David Waines (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2010
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-86985-8 (ISBN)

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Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travelers. Born in fourteenth-century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta left an account in his own words of his remarkable journeys, punctuated by adventure and peril, throughout the Islamic world and beyond. Whether sojourning in Delhi and the Maldives, wandering through the mazy streets of Cairo and Damascus, or contesting with pirates and shipwreck, the indefatigable Ibn Battuta brought to vivid life a medieval world brimming with marvel and mystery. Carefully observing the great diversity of civilizations that he encountered, Ibn Battuta exhibited an omnivorous interest in such matters as food and drink; religious differences among Christians, Hindus, and Shia Muslims; and ideas about purity and impurity, disease, women, and sex.

David Waines offers here a graceful analysis of Ibn Battuta's travelogue. This is a gripping treatment of the life and times of one of history's most daring, and at the same time most human, adventurers.

David Waines is emeritus professor of Islamic studies at Lancaster University and the author of An Introduction to Islam.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.7.2010
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, unspecified
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 239 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-226-86985-7 / 0226869857
ISBN-13	978-0-226-86985-8 / 9780226869858
Zustand	Neuware