The travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354. Volume III [electronic resource

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. The first two volumes recorded Ibn Battuta's earliest journeys through Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, Iraq, Asia Minor and South Russia. In this volume he visits Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. There are detailed descriptions of the towns on the way and the customs of the inhabitants. Sir Hamilton Gibb's edition comprises 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. Defrémery and B.R. Sanguinetti. 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. Cover CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS FOREWORD TO VOLUME THREE CHAPTER IX. TURKESTAN AND KHURASAN CHAPTER X. SIND AND NORTH-WESTERN INDIA CHAPTER XI. THE CITY OF DIHLI AND ITS SULTANS CHAPTER XII. SULTAN MUHAMMAD IBN TUGHLUQ CHAPTER XIII. THE REIGN OF SULTAN MUHAMMAD IBN TUGHLUQ CHAPTER XIV. IBN BATTUTA'S STAY IN DIHII BIBLIOGRAPHY PLATES 1. THE QUTB MINAR WITH THE IRON PILLAR 2. COURTYARD OF THE QUWWAT AL-ISLAM MOSQUE 3. THE WALLS OF TUGHLUQABAD 4. THE HALL OF THE THOUSAND COLUMNS 5. MAUSOLEUM OF THE SULTAN GHIYATH AL-DIN TUGHLUQ SHAH MAPS 1. IBN BATTUTA'S ITINERARIES IN CENTRAL ASIA 2. IBN BATTUTA'S ITINERIES IN AFGANINSTAN, SIND AND THE PUNJAB 3. IBN BATTUTA'S FOUR CITIES OF DELHI