The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Rihla/Travels)
Author: Ibn Battuta
Translator & Editor: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher: Macmillan Publisher (The Macmillan Collector Library)
Year of Publication: 1355 (Ibn Battutah’s Rihla) & 2016 (This book)
Print Length: 352 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Travel Writing or Travelogue, History; Islamic Studies / History
Area: Mediterranean, Southern Europe, North Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Spain, Middle East, West Asia, Syria, Iraq, Persia (Iran), Mecca, Asia Minor, Turkey/Turkiye, Constantinople / Istanbul, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Turkestan, The Volga, Russia, South Asia, India, Delhi, Assam, The Maldives, Bengal, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), East Asia, China, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Sumatera, East Africa, Tanzania, West Africa, Mali Empire
Topic: History, Islam, Muslim World, Lived Experience, Culture & Society, Beauty, City & Urban, Civilization, Friendship & Companionship, Migration, Mobility & Immobility
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Ibn Battutah – ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist – was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca… he did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist and gastronome.
With this edition by Mackintosh-Smith, Battutah’s Travels takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Introduction by Ibn Juzayy
1. North-West Africa and Egypt
2. Syria
3. The Pilgrimage to Mecca
4. Southern Persia and Iraq
5. Southern Arabia, East Africa and the Arabian Gulf
6. Asia Minor, the Steppe, and Constantinople
7. Turkestan and Afghanistan
8. Sind and North-Western India
9. The City of Dihli and Sultan Muhammad ibn Tughluq
10. Ibn Battutah’s Stay in Dihli
11. From Dihli to Kinbayah
12. South India
13. The Maldives
14. Ceylon and Coromandel
15. Bengal, Assam and South-East Asia
16. China
17. From China to Morocco, then Spain
18. The Country of the Blacks
Notes
Ibn Battuta is the 14th century, medieval Muslim traveler and the author of one of the most famous travel books, the Riḥla (Travels or A Masterpiece to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling). His great work describes his extensive travels covering some 75,000 miles (120,000 km) in trips to almost all of the Muslim countries and as far as China and Sumatera (now part of Indonesia).
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-Battuta
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Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, traveller, writer and lecturer. For almost thirty years his home has been the Yemeni capital San’a where he lives on the ruin-mound of the ancient Sabaean city, next to the modern donkey market. Tim’s first book, Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, won the 1998 Thomas Cook / Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award. His next, the best-selling Travels with a Tangerine, retraces the journeys of the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta in the old Islamic world. Both works are New York Times Notable Books. Tim has also edited Ibn Battuta’s own Travels. His book, The Hall of a Thousand Columns, revisits the scenes of Ibn Battuta’s Indian adventures and was published in March 2005.
Source: http://www.mackintosh-smith.com/
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