The Adventures of Ibn Battuta

A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, With a New Preface

Ross E. Dunn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2012
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-27292-7 (ISBN)

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Recounts the great traveler Ibn Battuta'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.

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.

Ross E. Dunn is Professor of History at San Diego State University.

List of Maps
Preface to the 2012 Edition
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
The Muslim Calendar
A Note on Money
List of Abbreviations Used in Notes
Introduction
1. Tangier
2. The Maghrib
3. The Mamluks
4. Mecca
5. Persia and Iraq
6. The Arabian Sea
7. Anatolia
8. The Steppe
9. Delhi
10. Malabar and the Maldives
11. China
12. Home
13. Mali
14. The Rihla
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Zusatzinfo	15 b-w photographs, 12 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-520-27292-7 / 0520272927
ISBN-13	978-0-520-27292-7 / 9780520272927
Zustand	Neuware