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 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 4, the sultan of Delhi asks Ibn Battuta to lead an embassy to China, during which he suffers difficulties, including attacks by Hindus, and shipwreck. He eventually reaches China via Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the Philippines; he then performs a fourth hajj before returning home, after twenty-four years' absence. He sets out again, to visit first Muslim Spain and then further regions of Africa, as far south as Timbuktu and down the river Niger, before returning home to dictate an account of his travels.
| ISBN: | 9781108044110 |
| Publication date: | 2nd February 2012 |
| Author: | Ibn Batuta |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 584 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History |
| Genres: |
Middle Eastern history Classic travel writing Geographical discovery and exploration |
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 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 4, the sultan of Delhi asks Ibn Battuta to lead an embassy to China, during which he suffers difficulties, including attacks by Hindus, and shipwreck. He eventually reaches China via Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the Philippines; he then performs a fourth hajj before returning home, after twenty-four years' absence. He sets out again, to visit first Muslim Spain and then further regions of Africa, as far south as Timbuktu and down the river Niger, before returning home to dictate an account of his travels.
Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah features in the following genres: Middle Eastern history, Classic travel writing, Geographical discovery and exploration
Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah is available in Paperback
Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah was written by Ibn Batuta and published by Cambridge University Press
Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah has 584 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History series
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