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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...
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David Waines is emeritus professor of Islamic studies at Lancaster University and the author of An Introduction to Islam.
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“David Waines has written a fresh, new study of the famous fourteenth-century traveler Ibn Battuta, in which the traveler’s world and worldview are laid bare for us. This is a delightful exposé of what Ibn Battuta made of the experience of travel and the diverse foods, societies, religions, and individuals that he encountered in the ‘international’ civilization of medieval Islam.”
(Paul M. Cobb, University of Pennsylvania)“David Waines offers us...
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0226869865
- ISBN 13 9780226869865
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