Travels of Ibn Batoutah: Arabic text, accompanied by a translation. Volume 4 / edited and translated by Charles Defrémery and Beniamino Raffaello Sanguinetti. [electronic resource]

Name: Travels of Ibn Batoutah: Arabic text, accompanied by a translation. Volume 4 / edited and translated by Charles Defrémery and Beniamino Raffaello Sanguinetti. [electronic resource]
Author: Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377, author.

Title	Travels of Ibn Batoutah: Arabic text, accompanied by a translation. Volume 4 / edited and translated by Charles Defrémery and Beniamino Raffaello Sanguinetti. [electronic resource]
Author	Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377, author.
Publication Date:	2015
Publication Place	Cambridge - Cambridge University Press
Subject	Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800, Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377
Type	Book
Language	ara,fra
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	575
Physical Dimensions	1 online resource (iv, 575 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Library:	Vanderbilt University Libraries
Library Asset ID	ISBN : 1-139-17630-7, ISBN : 1-108-04411-5
Record ID	alma991044301159003276
Library Location	Online
Notes	Also issued in print: 2012., Originally published: Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1858. \| Also issued in print: 2012., Originally published: Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1858. \| 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.
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Travels of Ibn Batoutah: Arabic text, accompanied by a translation. Volume 4 / edited and translated by Charles Defrémery and Beniamino Raffaello Sanguinetti. [electronic resource]

Author Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377, author.

Publication Date 2015

Publication Place Cambridge - Cambridge University Press

Subject Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800, Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377

Type Book

Language ara,fra

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 575

Physical Dimensions 1 online resource (iv, 575 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Library Vanderbilt University Libraries

Library Asset ID ISBN : 1-139-17630-7, ISBN : 1-108-04411-5

Record ID alma991044301159003276

Library Location Online

Notes Also issued in print: 2012., Originally published: Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1858. | Also issued in print: 2012., Originally published: Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1858. | 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.

Dizi Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration