This book Ibn Batutta is an account of the journeys of Abu Abdullah Mohammed (1304-1358) of the family with the name Ibn Battuta. He set out from his home town of Tangier in 1325 on pilgrimage to Mecca. On reaching Egypt, he found the Red Sea crossing from Aidab to Jidda blocked. So he returned to Cairo, from there proceeded to Damascus, thence to Medina and Mecca. This journey engendered in him the lure of traval. During his sojourn to three years in Mecca he ...
Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. Between 1324 and 1354 he journeyed through North Africa and Asia Minor to Mecca, through Central Asia to India and as far as China. On a separate voyage he crossed the Sahara to the Muslim lands of West Africa. His journeys are estimated to have covered over 75,000 miles and he is the only medieval traveller known to have visited every Muslim state of the time, besides the 'infidel' countries of Istanbul, Ceylon and China. ...
The Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam is an unequalled reference work of all subjects which concern, or touch on, the religion and law of Islam.
As to its geographical and historical scope, the work embraces the old Arabo-Islamic Empire, the Islamic state of Iran, Central Asia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire, and the various Muslim states and communities in Africa, Europe and the Former U.S.S.R.
The Shorter Encyclopaedia of ...