The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Summary
Ross E. Dunn

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Summary

"The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century" is historian Ross Dunn's account of the world of Islam in the 1400s as based on the contemporaneous book written about the journeys of Ibn Battuta, an educated legal scholar from Tangier in Morocco whose travels extend from Sub-Saharan Africa across Northern Africa to the Middle East, Persia, Palestine, India and China.

Ibn Battuta, with the aid of a...

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