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Ibn Batuta &

His Travels -y Michelle &Souza Priyanka Keswani


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Ibn Batuta


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The travel begings

" , , ...My departure from Tangier my birthplace took place with the object of making the[ ] [Pilgrimage to the Holy House at Makkah and of visiting the tomb of the Prophet in

], .Medina God's richest blessing and peace be on him I set out alone having neither- ,fellow traveler in whose companionship I might find cheer nor caravan whose party I

, -might join but swayed by an overmastering impulse within me and a desire long.cherished in my bosom to visit these illustrious sanctuaries So I braced my resolution

, ,to quit all my dear ones female and male and forsook my home as birds forsake their. ,nests My parents being yet in the bonds of life it weighed sorely upon me to part

, ." [ , .from them and both they and I were afflicted with sorrow at this separation Gibb p]8 ,His journey to Mecca was by land and followed the North African coast crossing the

.sultanates of Abd Al Wadid and Hafsid He usually chose to join a caravan to.reduce the risk of being attacked by wandering Arab bedouin

,After spending the Muslim month of Ramadan in Damascus he joined up with a caravan, ( ) ,travelling the 1 500 km 930 mi from Damascus to Medina burial place of

. , .the Islamic prophet Muhammad After 4 days in the town he journeyed on to MeccaThere he completed the usual rituals of a Muslim pilgrim,and having graduated to

the status of -al Hajji, faced his return home but instead decided to continue. - .journeying His next destination in modern day Iraq and Iran
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&Iraq Persia


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, &Arabian Peninsula Somalia Swahili Coast


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Black Death

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The Rihla Medival book which recounts the journey

of Ibn Battuta and his travels In 1354, Battuta returned home and gave

a detailed account of his journeys to IbnJuzayy who was a scholar he hadpreviously met

It was the only source of his adventures No indication that Ibn Battuta made any

notes during his travelling years Relied purely on memory and manuscripts

from previous travellers Westerners do not believe he travelled to

all the places he described as he reliedheavily on evidence from previoustravellers

Often experienced culture shock whereverhe went as some places did not fit his

orthodox Muslim background Was appointed judge in Morocco and died


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onc us on-bn Battuta The ForgottenTraveller


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refrences

, . . ( ).Chapurukha M K 1999 The Rise and Fall ofSwahili States, :Lanham Alta Mira Press

, . . ( ).Dunn R E 2005 The Adventures of Ibn Battuta,:California University of California Press

, . ( ).Nehru J 1989 Glimpses of World History,:India Oxford University Press , . ( ). ( )Smith T Host 2007 Travels with a Tangerine.

( ). :Documentary London BBC television

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