The second map shows the route of Ibn Battuta's journeys. The Setting Dar al-Islam in the 14th Century The first map below shows the Muslim World (or Dar al-Islam) about 1300. Ibn Battuta in Egypt painting by Hippolyte Leon. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1994. That title is a bit of a mouthful so the text is generally just called Ibn Battuta's Rihla, or Journey.
IBN BATTUTA BOOK OF TRAVELS SERIES
The index to all four parts is provided in Second Series 190. The first two parts are Second Series 110 and 117.
Continued from Second Series 141, with continuous pagination. Translated with revisions and new annotation from the Arabic text edited by C. He made two more journeys, the first to part of Spain still under Muslim rule, which included Gibraltar, Ronda, Màlaga and Granada, and the other across the Sahara to the kingdom of Mali on the upper Niger, from which he returned to Fez via Timbuktu, Gao, Aïr, the Hoggar country and Tuat.
His return to Morocco, during which he witnessed the ravages of the Black Death in Syria and Egypt, and called at Cagliari in a Catalan ship, is described summarily. After going to Canton he travelled by a non-existent river to Hang-chou and Beijing. He claims to have visited several countries in south-east Asia, including Sumatra and Java and some which cannot be satisfactorily identified, and arrived at Ch'Ã1/4an-chou in China. He abandoned the planned invasion of the Maldives, to which he returned briefly, and the sailed to Bengal to visit an ascetic in Sylhet. On the way to join him, Ibn Battuta found himself in Ceylon and took the opportunity to climb Adam's Peak. Here he functioned as a judge, married into the ruling elite, and became involved in a plot to bring the islands under the authority of a bloodthirsty Sultan in south India. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years. His travel book provides the best eyewitness account of the diverse Muslim cultures of the. Over a period of thirty years, Ibn Battuta visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands. (Translated by Samuel Lee.) Read in English by volunteer readers. Ibn Battuta joined the Sultan of Honavar in a temporarily successful attack on Goa, and then went to the Maldives, which had not long been converted to Islam by another North African. Ibn Battuta was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. When he finished his journeys, he dictated his story to a scribe. LibriVox recording of The Travels of Ibn Batuta by Ibn Battuta.
Here the ships which were to take them to China were wrecked. In Volume IV he describes his journey to the coast where he embarked near Cambay and sailed to Calicut. Volume III ended with Ibn Battuta's appointment by the Sultan of Delhi to accompany an embassy to China. This volume completes the translation of Ibn Battuta's narrative.
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