Written more than eight hundred years ago and now translated into English, this is the first-hand account of a wise and scholarly Spanish Muslim's pilgrimage to Makkah and Madinah, the holy cities of Islam. Besides pilgrimage to Makkah and Madinah, this work narrates Ibn Jubayar's travels to Baghdad, the city of the Caliphs, to the first onslaught of Saladin, and to the island of Sicily at its most splendid Norman-Saracen period under a dynasty of Norse ...
