Ross E. Dunn - The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century

Ibn Battuta has led me so far and wide in the Eastern Hemisphere that in the course of writing this book I have asked for advice and criticism from an unusually large number of scholars and colleagues. I cannot mention them all, but I would like to thank the following individuals for reading and criticizing, sometimes in great detail, all or part of the manuscript: Jere Bacharach, Edmund Burke, P. C. Chu, Julia Clancy-Smith, Michael Dols, Jeanne Dunn, Richard Eaton, G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville, Kathryn Green, David Hart, James Kirkman, Howard Kushner, Ira Lapidus, Michael Meeker, David Morgan, William Phillips, Charles Smith, Ray Smith, Peter von Sivers, and Robert Wilson. I am especially grateful for the enduring support of Professor C. F. Beckingham, a man of learning and urbanity with whom Ibn Battuta would have found much in common. If I failed to understand or heed good advice these individuals gave me, I alone bear the responsibility.

I am grateful to the National Endowment for the Humanities for awarding me a fellowship that funded research and writing in 198081. During that year I enjoyed the privilege of affiliation with the Middle East Centre at Cambridge University, thanks to Professor R. B. Serjeant and Dr Robin Bidwell. I am also indebted to the Fellows of Clare Hall for extending me membership in the college as a Visiting Associate. San Diego State University generously supported this project with a sabbatical leave and several small grants. For research assistance or typing services I would like to express my appreciation to Lorin Birch, Veronica King, Richard Knight, Helen Lavey, and Jill Swalling Harrington. Finally, I want to thank Barbara Aguado for making the maps.

This list excludes a number of general works on the history of geography or travel that contain summary descriptions of Ibn Battutas career. It also excludes partial translations of the Rihla that subsequently appeared as part of larger published works.

Abdur Rahim. Six Hundred Years After in the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta in Andalusia. Peshawar University Review 51 (1973): 121.

Beckingham, Charles F. From Tangier to China 14th Century. Hemisphere: An Asian-Australian Magazine, 8 August 1978, pp. 2631.

Ibn Battuta in Sind. In Sind through the Centuries: Proceedings of an International Seminar, Karachi 1975. Edited by Hamida Khuhro. Karachi, 1981, pp. 13942.

In Search of Ibn Battuta. Asian Affairs 8 (1977): 26377.

Bhatnagar, R. Madhyadesh in the Rehla of Ibn Battuta. Saugar University Journal 4 (195556): 97109.

Bousquet, G. H. Ibn Battuta et les institutions musulmanes. Studia Islamica 24 (1966): 81106.

Carim, Fuad. Maco Polo ve Ibn Batuta. Istanbul. 1966.

Chelhod, Joesph. Ibn Battuta, Ethnologue. Revue de lOccident Musulman et de la Mditerrane 25 (1978): 524.

Chittick, H. Neville. Ibn Battuta and East Africa. Journal de la Socit des Africanistes 38 ( 1968): 23941.

Cuoq, J. M. Recueil des sources arabes concernant lAfrique occidentale du Ville au XVIe sicle. Paris, 1975.

De, Harinath (trans.), and Ghosh, P. N. (ed.). Ibn Batutahs Account of Bengal. Calcutta, 1978.

Dfrmery, C., and Sanguinetti, B. R. (trans. and eds.). Voyages dIbn Battuta. 4 vols. Paris, 185358; reprint edn., edited by Vincent Monteil. Paris, 1979.

Dulaurier, Edouard. Description de larchipel dAsie, par Ibn Bathoutha. Journal Asiatique, 4th ser., 9 (1874): 93134, 21859.

Fanjul, Serafin. Elementos folkloricos en la Rihla de Ibn Battuta. Revista del Instituto Egipico de Estudios Islamicos en Madrid 21 (198182): 15379.

and Arbs, Federico (trans. and eds.). Ibn Battuta a travs del Islam. Madrid, 1981.

Ferrand, Gabriel. Relations de voyages et textes gographiques arabes, persans, et turks relatif lExtrme-Orient du VIII au XVIII sicles. 2 vols. Paris, 191314. See vol. 2, pp. 42658.

Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P. Ibn Batutas Visit to East Africa, 1332 A.D.: A Translation. Uganda Journal 19 (1955): 16.

Gabrieli, Francesco (trans. and ed.). I viaggi di Ibn Battuta. Florence, 1961.

Gibb, H. A. R. (trans. and ed.). Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa. London, 1929; reprint edn., 1983.

Notes sur les voyages dIbn Battuta en Asie Mineure et en Russie. Etudes dorientalisme dedies la memoire de Lvi-Provenal. 2 vols. Paris. 1962. vol. 1, pp. 12533.

The Travels of Ibn Battuta A.D. 13251354. Translated with Revisions and Notes from the Arabic Text Edited by C. Dfrmery and B. R. Sanguinetti. 3 vols. Cambridge for the Hakluyt Society, 1958, 1961, 1971.

Gies, Frances Carney. To Travel the Earth. Aramco World Magazine (JanuaryFebruary 1978): 1827.

Haig, M. R. Ibnu Batuta in Sindh. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 19 (1887): 393412.

Hamdun, Said, and King, Noel (trans. and eds.). Ibn Battuta in Black Africa. London. 1975.

Hasan, Mehdi. The Rihla of Ibn Battuta. Proceedings of the Second Indian Historical Congress 2 (1938): 27885.

Hrbek, Ivan. The Chronology of Ibn Battutas Travels. Archiv Orientalni 30 (1962): 40986.

Husain, Agha Mahdi. Dates and Precis of Ibn Battutas Travels with Observations. Sind University Research Journal, Arts Series: Humanities and Social Sciences 7 (1968): 95108.

Ibn Battuta and His Rehla in New Light. Sind University Research Journal, Arts Series: Humanities and Social Sciences 6 (1967): 2532.

Ibn Battuta, His Life and Work. Indo-Iranica 7 (1954): 613.

Manuscripts of Ibn Battutas Rehla in Paris and Ibn Juzayy. Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 20 (1954): 4953.

(trans. and ed.). The Rehla of Ibn Battuta. Baroda, India, 1976.

Studies in the Tuhfatunnuzzar of Ibn Battuta and Ibn Juzayy. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh 23 (1978): 1849.

Ibn Battuta. Rihla Ibn Batuta. Beirut, 1964.

Rihla Ibn Battuta. 2 vols. Cairo, 1964.

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. Al-Durar al-Kamina fi Ayan al-Mia al-Thamina. 4 vols. Hyderabad, 192931. See vol. 3, pp. 48081 for biographical notice on Ibn Battuta.

Izzeddin, Mehmed. Ibn Battouta et la topographie byzantine. Actes du VI Congrs Internationale des tudes Byzantines. 2 vols. Paris, 1951, vol. 2, pp. 19196.

Janicsek, Stephen. Ibn Battutas Journey to Bulghar: Is it a Fabrication? Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (October. 1929): 791800.

Janssens, Herman F. Ibn Batouta, Le Voyageur de lIslam. Brussels, 1948.

Khan, Abdul Majed. The Historicity of Ibn Batuta Re. Sham-Suddin Firuz Shah, the So-Called Balbani King of Bengal. Indian Historical Quarterly 18 (1942): 6570.

King, Noel. Reading between the Lines of Ibn Battuta for the History of Religion in Black Africa. Milla wa-milla 19 (1979): 2633.

Lee, Samuel (trans. and ed.). The Travels of Ibn Batuta. London, 1929.

Leva, A. Enrico. Ibn Batuta nell Africa Nera. Africa 16: (1961): 16977.

Lvi-Provenal, E. Le voyage dIbn Battuta dans le royaume de Grenade (1350). Mlanges offerts William Marais. Paris, 1950, pp. 20524.

Markwart, J. Ein arabischer Bericht ber die arktischen (uralischen) Lnder aus dem 10 Jahrhundert. Ungaarische Jahrbcher 4 (1924): 261334.

Mattock, J. N. Ibn Battutas Use of Ibn Jubayrs Rihla. In Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the Union Europene des Arabisants et Islamisants. Edited by R. Peters. Leiden, 1981, pp. 20918.

The Travel Writings of Ibn Jubair and Ibn Batuta.