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15 produkter
Two Arabic Travel Books
Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga
Av Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī, Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
529 kr
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Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to …
Travels of Ibn Battutah
Av Ibn Battutah, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Häftad, 2003
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
144 kr
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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 …
Arabs
A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
Häftad, 2020
169 kr
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A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR"Masterly and brilliant"—Simon Sebag Montefiore"A book of vast scope and stunning insight."—Anthony Sattin, Spectator “Commanding erudition and a swashbuckling style define this history of the Arabs”—Justin Marozzi, Sunday TimesThis kaleidoscopic book covers …
Hall of a Thousand Columns
Häftad, 2006
1,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
158 kr
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All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India.Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed he …
Landfalls
On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra
Häftad, 2011
158 kr
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For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls …
Yemen
Häftad, 2007
158 kr
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Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia.For the classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves. Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands and …
Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler
Häftad, 2004
305 kr
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Physician on the Nile
A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years
Av ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Inbunden, 2021
448 kr
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Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century EgyptA Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by the polymath and physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, …
Landfalls
On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn''t mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith''s passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls …
Travels with a Tangerine
A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
Häftad, 2012
1,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
206 kr
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Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed …
Travels with a Tangerine
A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed …
Yemen
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land , Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over …
Hall of a Thousand Columns
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah''s India. Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed he …
Arabs
A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
Ljudbok, 2019
364 kr
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A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost three thousand years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated …
