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Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Fudayl by : Goerge R. Sole
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Fudayl written by Goerge R. Sole and published by Darf Publishers Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Travels of Ibn Fudayl is a satirical tale written in the style of an academic who has translated a medieval manuscript. It comes complete with a foreword, introduction, bibliography and copious footnotes that poke fun at the pretentious world of academia, whilst chronicling Ibn Fudayl's experiences in Al-Andalus. In particular, how his search for wisdom leads him to meet the philosopher Al-Homsi, the world's most ignorant man. It is their friendship and love for worthless knowledge that enables Ibn Fudayl to reach the upper echelons of Andalusian society.
Download or read book Zainab written by Mohammed Hussein Haikal and published by Darf Publishers Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-10-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zainab, a name which aptly reflects the beauty of this tale's protagonist is also the title of the first modern Egyptian novel written in native vernacular. Crafted in 1910 by a privileged member of society and a student at the time living in Paris, Mohammed Hussein Haikal later rose through the ranks of Egyptian politics and media. The writer, journalist and politician also holds a number of written works to his name, including The House of Revelation (1939) and Thus was I Created (1955). Haikal successfully humanises and contextualises Egypt's societal issues without too reproachful a voice. As the great poet, Ahmed Fouad Negm said, 'it is better to wake your child up through laughter, rather than shouting at him'. Haikal expresses his sympathies with the fellah of Egypt, who despite the apparent reverence with which they are looked upon by society are still obliged to bear extreme difficulties, which they do so with great dignity. Their suffering remains unchallenged as they are routinely exploited by their employers, the state, 'religious leaders' and cheated out of education which results in the demise of their mental and physical wellbeing. Illnesses may be treated as a metaphysical phenomenon, rather than with a trip to the doctor, whilst depression is treated as a headache. Zainab, a hardworking farmer girl, is to be married to a son of the landowner despite her love for another named Ibrahim. Haikal is highly critical of this traditional marriage practice, where young men and women are picked off by families and pushed together into marriage to suit the requirements of the parents over the needs of the young couple. This message is clear throughout the book but appears most starkly in an open letter from Haikal to the public, guised as a note written by the character Hamid to his own father. Hamid states, 'To this day I consider the institution of marriage defective, on account of the conditions that are attached to it. Indeed I believe a marriage which is not based on love and does not progress with love to be contemptible.' As Haikal wrote in his room in Paris he was undoubtedly influenced by his nostalgia, describing scenes in Egypt in a way that only an Egyptian could. He is a man who has succeeded in writing for the woman, and his critiques of society are logical and empathetic. Few are painted as evil in Zainab but the writer warns that as with most of society's ills, our failures are the consequence of apathy, silence and the desire to fulfil what is expected of us through convention, culture and our own ignorance.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Ibn Battuta by : Ross E. Dunn
Download or read book The Adventures of Ibn Battuta written by Ross E. Dunn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ross Dunn's classic retelling of the travels of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim of the 14th century.
Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 by : Ibn Batuta
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 written by Ibn Batuta and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354 by :
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354 written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. Between 1324 and 1354 he journeyed through North Africa and Asia Minor and as far as China. On a separate voyage he crossed the Sahara to the Muslim lands of West Africa. His journeys are estimated to have covered over 75,000 miles and he is the only medieval traveller known to have visited every Muslim state of the time, besides the 'infidel' countries of Istanbul, Ceylon and China. This first volume records the earliest journeys through Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Arabia, on pilgrimage to the Holy Places of Islam. Among the detailed descriptions of towns on the road and of their inhabitants, he gives a particularly circumstancial account of Medina and Mecca. Sir Hamilton Gibb's edition is in four volumes with introduction and full notes. This first complete and scholarly edition in English has proved essential to orientalists and illuminating to medievalists. The travels are a major source for the political and economic life of large regions of Asia and Africa. The observations of this intelligent representative of Islamic culture on almost all the known inhabited world beyond Europe provide fruitful comparisons with the life and geographical knowledge of the West. Translated with revisions and new annotation from the Arabic text edited by C. Defr?ry and B.R. Sanguinetti. Covers travels in North-West Africa, Egypt, Syria, and to Mecca. Continued in Second Series 117, 141, and 178, and with the index in 190. The main pagination of all the volumes is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1958.
Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Battuta by : Ibn Battuta
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Battuta written by Ibn Battuta and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest travelers of his age, Sheikh Ibn Battuta began a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1326 that ended 27 years and 75,000 miles later. His engrossing account of that journey provides vivid details of an odyssey that took him from Tangier to East Africa, southern Russia, India, China, and other areas of the Middle and Far East. A primary source for the history and geography of the medieval Arab world, this reprint of a rare and important work will be welcomed by students and scholars for its inherent historical value.--publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages by : Houari Touati
Download or read book Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages written by Houari Touati and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North Africa, and seeing parts of Europe—they also established both philosophical and geographic boundaries between the faithful and the heathen. These voyages thus gave the Islamic world, which at the time extended from the Maghreb to the Indus Valley, a coherent identity. Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages assesses both the religious and philosophical aspects of travel, as well as the economic and cultural conditions that made the rihla possible. Houari Touati tracks the compilers of the hadith who culled oral traditions linked to the prophet, the linguists and lexicologists who journeyed to the desert to learn Bedouin Arabic, the geographers who mapped the Muslim world, and the students who ventured to study with holy men and scholars. Travel, with its costs, discomforts, and dangers, emerges in this study as both a means of spiritual growth and a metaphor for progress. Touati’s book will interest a broad range of scholars in history, literature, and anthropology.
Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Battuta, AD 1325–1354 by : H.A.R. Gibb
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Battuta, AD 1325–1354 written by H.A.R. Gibb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume completes the translation of Ibn Battuta's narrative. Volume III ended with Ibn Battuta's appointment by the Sultan of Delhi to accompany an embassy to China. In Volume IV he describes his journey to the coast where he embarked near Cambay and sailed to Calicut. Here the ships which were to take them to China were wrecked. 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. 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. On the way to join him, Ibn Battuta found himself in Ceylon and took the opportunity to climb Adam's Peak. He abandoned the planned invasion of the Maldives, to which he returned briefly, and the sailed to Bengal to visit an ascetic in Sylhet. He claims to have visited several countries in south-east Asia, including Sumatra and Java and some which cannot be satisfactorily identified, and arrived in China. After going to Canton he travelled by a non-existent river to Hang-chou and Beijing. 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. He made two more journeys, the first to part of Spain still under Muslim rule, which included Gibraltar, Ronda, Malaga 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, Hoggar country and Tuat. Translated with revisions and new annotation from the Arabic text edited by C. Defrémery and B.R. Sanguinetti. Continued from Second Series 141, with continuous pagination. The first two parts are Second Series 110 and 117. The index to all four parts is provided in Second Series 190. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1994.
Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Battuta by : Albion M Butters
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Battuta written by Albion M Butters and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ibn Baṭṭūṭa (1304 - 1369) was the best-known Arab traveler in world history. Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the Islamic world and many non-Muslim lands. Following his travels, he dictated a report he called "A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling," known simply in Arabic as the Riḥla. This dramatic document provides a firsthand account of the nascent globalization brought by the spread of Islam and the relationship between the Western world and India and China in the 14th century. As an Islamic legal scholar, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa served at high levels of government within the vibrant Muslim network of India and China. In the Riḥla, he shares insights into the complex power dynamics of the time and provides commentary on the religious miracles he encountered. The result is an entertaining narrative with a wealth of anecdotes, often humorous or shocking, and in many cases touchingly human.
Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Battutah by : Ibn Battutah
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Battutah written by Ibn Battutah and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-06-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist and gastronome. With this edition by Mackintosh-Smith, Battuta's Travels takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.
Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa by : Ibn Batuta
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa written by Ibn Batuta and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Travels by : Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Allāh forme avant 2007 Ibn Baṭṭūṭa
Download or read book The Travels written by Muḥammad Ibn ʻAbd Allāh forme avant 2007 Ibn Baṭṭūṭa and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Batūta by : Ibn Batuta
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Batūta written by Ibn Batuta and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354 by : Ibn Batuta
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354 written by Ibn Batuta and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 1958 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continued from Second Series 117, with continuous pagination. The first part is Second Series 110, and the fourth Second Series 178. The index to all four parts is provided in Second Series 190. This volume covers Turkestan, Khurasan, Sind, north-western India and Delhi, including an account of the reign of Sultan Muhammad ibn Tughluq. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1971.
Download or read book Friends of God written by John Renard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I know of no other work in Western scholarship and pedagogy of Islamic studies with the scope and depth of Friends of God. Renard does not only provide well organized, richly detailed, absorbing, and delightful coverage of the best known literature on Muslim saints and sainthood, but he also brings the reader into modern and contemporary contexts where the subject continues to be of considerable personal and communal spiritual importance. This book is new and urgently needed in today's world, whether in the university or across the global landscape of adult reflection on Islam and Muslims. "—Frederick Mathewson Denny, author of An Introduction to Islam and Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, at Boulder
Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Battuta to Central Asia by : Ibn Batuta
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Battuta to Central Asia written by Ibn Batuta and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Travels of Ibn Battuta ranks high amongst the masterpieces of Arabic geographical literature and is of great significance in the understanding of the history of the peoples inhabiting the Central Asian states. In 1325, Ibn Battuta, a traveler and adventurer from Tangiers, embarked on an extraordinary journey via Mecca to Egypt, East Africa, India, and China and returned some thirty years later to write about his experiences. Ibrahimov Nematulla Ibrahimovich details the life and travels of Ibn Battuta to give the reader an idea of the extent of the adventures and also to provide insights into the remarkable traveler himself. He then chronicles both lay and learned opinion over the centuries with regard to the amazing yet controversial journey, revealing the doubt that existed towards the authenticity of the tales: were they simply a fantastic invention or were they real experiences? To illustrate his argument, Ibrahimovich then selects a passage from The Travels concerning Central Asia and provides extensive historical and philological commentary and notes on the passage in an effort to persuade the reader of the authenticity of the tales and their value in helping us understand the peoples of Central Asia in the fourteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa by : Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allâh Ibn Baṭṭūṭaẗ
Download or read book The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa written by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allâh Ibn Baṭṭūṭaẗ and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
