Ibn Battutah was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries, covering 75,000 miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as Tanzania. Battutah comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian, occasional botanist and gastronome. With this new edition Battutahs Travels takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.

Travels of Ibn Battutah

Travel

Ibn Batuta

Reference

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

Text: English, Arabic (translation)

Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 (The Broadway Travellers) (English and Arabic Edition)

History

Gibb, H.A.R.

Africa

Augustus M. Kelley Pubs

Ibn Battuta in Black Africa

Collings

This English edition of the work of the Arab traveller usually known as Ibn Battuta (1304-68/9) was translated by Rev. Samuel Lee (1783-1852), Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, from 'the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge', and published in 1829. Lee's work sparked widespread European interest in Ibn Battuta, who had set off from his native Morocco on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1325, and kept travelling for the next twenty-four years, reaching as far east as China and as far south as Zanzibar, as well as visiting parts of Spain and the Byzantine Empire. On his return, he dictated an account of his travels; Lee translated an abridged version, but fuller versions were later discovered. There is doubt as to whether Ibn Battuta actually saw everything he described, but this account gives a fascinating world-view from the medieval period.

The Travels of Ibn Batūta: With Notes, Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiquities, etc. Occurring throughout the Work (Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History)

Middle East

Cambridge University Press

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 as part of the 'Collection d'ouvrages orientaux' of the French Société Asiatique. 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 1, he describes his departure from Tangier, and his journey via Tunis to Egypt, where he travelled to Cairo, planning to reach a Red Sea port and sail to Arabia. The route was closed, so he returned to Cairo and travelled from there to Damascus, taking in the holy places of Palestine en route. Having finally reached Medina and Mecca, he decided to travel on, to Najaf (in present-day Iraq).

Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah: Texte Arabe, accompagné d'une traduction (Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History) (Volume 1)

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 2, he leaves Najaf and heads for Persia, exploring Isfahan and Shiraz before returning to Baghdad. Next he goes north, as far as modern Turkey, before performing a second pilgrimage to Mecca. From Jeddah, he sails to Yemen and down the coast of Africa as far as modern-day Tanzania. After a third visit to Mecca he heads north as far as the Crimea and Astrakhan, whence he travels to Constantinople in the retinue of a Byzantine princess, before heading east again.

Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah: Texte Arabe, accompagné d'une traduction (Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History) (Volume 2)

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'.

Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah: Texte Arabe, accompagné d'une traduction (Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History) (Volume 3)

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: Texte Arabe, accompagné d'une traduction (Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History) (Volume 4)

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 as part of the 'Collection d'ouvrages orientaux' of the French Société Asiatique. 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. After travels which took him, by land and sea, to the furthest boundaries of the then known world, including modern-day Tanzania, Timbuktu, China, the Philippines, the Crimea and Spain, he returned home and dictated this account. There is doubt as to whether Ibn Battuta actually saw everything he described, but his remarkable narrative gives a fascinating view of kingdoms and peoples which very few travellers of the period had visited.

Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah 4 Volume Set: Texte Arabe, accompagné d'une traduction (Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History)

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Voyages D'ibn Batoutah, Texte Arabe, Accompagne D'une Traduction, Volume 1 (Arabic Edition)

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