| Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah: Texte Arabe, Accompagné d'Une Traduction Contributor(s): Ibn Batuta (Author), Defr Mery, Charles (Editor), Sanguinetti, Beniamino Raffaello (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1108044093 ISBN-13: 9781108044097 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Arabic Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General - Travel |
| Dewey: 910.92 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.36 lbs) 490 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This four-volume edition of the Arabic text of the Journey of the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta (1304-68/9), with a French translation, was published in 1853-8. In 1325, Ibn Battuta, who came from a family of Islamic jurists in Tangier, set out to make the pilgrimage to Mecca - the beginning of a journey that would last for twenty-four years and take him as far as China. In Volume 2, he leaves Najaf and heads for Persia, exploring Isfahan and Shiraz before returning to Baghdad. Next he goes north, as far as modern Turkey, before performing a second pilgrimage to Mecca. From Jeddah, he sails to Yemen and down the coast of Africa as far as modern-day Tanzania. After a third visit to Mecca he heads north as far as the Crimea and Astrakhan, whence he travels to Constantinople in the retinue of a Byzantine princess, before heading east again. |
