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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Summary & Study Guide Description
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"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 writer commissioned by the Sultan of Morocco, produces a traditional "Rihla" describing his journeys. Dunn uses the Rihla as a starting point to describe the vast extent of the Dar al-Islam, or the "kingdom" of Islam, which includes all the kingdoms and regions where the leaders practice and enforce Islamic law. The reach of Islam is so great, Dunn argues, that even thought Ibn Battuta travels more widely than most other people of his day, he is rarely unable...
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