ibn batuta

Offers a guided reading of the work of Sheikh Ibn Battuta using twenty interactive lessons on style and grammar along with historical and cultural background and critical evaluation. The work itself chronicles the travels of Ibn Battuta to East Africa, Byzantium, Iraq, Russia, India, Ceylon, and China during the fourteenth century. Describes Muslim maritime activities, foreign architecture, and the agricultural activities of various cultures as well as other sights from his travels.

Follows the travels of Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta who traveled for twenty-five years throughout the Middle East and Asia, virtually the whole Islamic world, in the Middle Ages.

"In 1325, a young Muslim man named Ibn Battuta set out on a religious pilgrimage to Mecca. It would be nearly thirty years before he returned home. Ibn Battuta was a fourteenth-century pilgrim, traveler, scholar, and writer. He walked, sailed, and rode some seventy-five thousand miles across the medieval Muslim world, covering the equivalent of forty-four modern-day countries. This volume details the fascinating cultures Battuta experienced: the people he met, the foods he ate, the dangers he faced, plus his viewpoints on family, religion, and slavery. Learn how the legacy of this medieval traveler still resonates today.".

A pictorial account of the traveler and pilgrim Ibn Battuta in the fourteenth century, following him from Morocco to Jerusalem to Mecca and to the edges of the known world.

Looks at the travels of Ibn Battutah who traveled to over forty countries in twenty-nine years.

Chronicles the life and career of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century Moroccan adventurer and religious scholar who traveled extensively along the Silk Road.

An interpretation of the life and times of fourteenth-century traveler Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta.

Presents an English translation of Ibn Batuta's recounts of his fourteenth-century journeys deep into black Africa.

An account of two African journeys, the first one from Egypt down along the eastern coastline as far as Tanzania, and the second down through the Western Sahara Desert.