Author
Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377, author., Defrémery, C., editor, translator., Sanguinetti, B. R. (Beniamino Raffaello), 1811-1883, editor, translator.
Publication Date
1855
Publication Place
Place of publication not identified -
Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified
Subject
Muslims -- Travel -- Early works to 1800, Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800, Travelers -- Islamic Empire -- Early works to 1800, Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
476
Physical Dimensions
1 online resource (xxxii, 476 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Library
Biblioteques de la Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Library Asset ID
ISBN : 1-139-17629-3, ISBN : 1-108-04410-7
Record ID
alma991010753028706709
Library Location
Available Online
Date
1855
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Sep 2016).
Sample Text
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 3, having decided to visit the court of the Turkic sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq at Delhi, he travels via Bukhara and Samarkand to Afghanistan and then across the Hindu Kush into India. At Delhi, he was given the post of Judge by the sultan, and he stayed at the court for six years. He provides a history of the kingdom of Delhi and an account of Tughluq's reign, describing both his wisdom and generosity and his 'acts of violence and criminal deeds'.
Diziler
Cambridge library collection. Medieval history, Cambridge library collection. Medieval history.
