The Travels of Ibn Bat?ta
With Notes, Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiquities, etc. Occurring throughout the Work

An 1829 English edition of the work of the medieval Arab traveller Ibn Battuta (1304–68/9).

Ibn Batuta (Author), Samuel Lee (Edited and translated by)

9781108041973, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 February 2012

270 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1.4 cm, 0.44 kg

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.

Dedication
Preface
1. Tanjiers
2. Alexandria
3. Upper Egypt
4. Balb?s
5. Jerusalem
6. El Ar?s
7. Idhaj
8. El Hilla
9. Mecca
10. Hormuz
11. Anatolia
12. San?b
13. Fortress of Maht?l?
14. The River Sinde
15. Conquest of Dehli
Appendix
16. Ibn Bat?ta arrives at the Queen Mother's Palace
17. Sent on an embassy to China
18. Arrival at Abi Sardar
19. Description of the Maldive Islands
20. Arrival in Ceylon
21. Return to the coast of Coromandel
22. Arrival at Sumatra
23. Arrival in China
24. Returns by the river to El Zait?n
25. Gibraltar.

Subject Areas: Middle Eastern history [HBJF1]