The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Saturday, August 8 2009.

• 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. Illustrations: 15 b/w photographs, 12 maps

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Tuesday, July 28 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ross E. Dunn: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The white and windy city of Tangier lies on the coast of Morocco at the southwestern end of the Strait of Gibraltar where the cold surface current of the Atlantic flows into the channel, forming a river to the Mediterranean 45 miles away.