Ibn Battuta

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Ibn Battuta: The Man Who Walked Across the World (Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, India, China) 2015, 180 min. In English with English subtitles. Producer: Tim Mackintosh – Smith, BBC. Distributor: BBC. Ibn Battuta: The Man Who Walked Across the World is a pilgrimage to the old Islamic World, where Mackintosh – Smith follows the steps of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveller and Islamic law scholar who travelled across Africa, Mecca, Middle East, Turkey, India and China in a journey of 75 thousand miles…

about culture more completely foreign to him than either Xuanzang or Ibn Battuta; China did not have the same religious tradition compared to where he came from. This probably is the reason why he has brief descriptions of religious life and practice in Hangzhou. His posture towards the culture of India was descriptive, without the clear criticisms of Battuta and the very positive passages found in Marco Polo’s account. Ibn Battuta made his own culture, mostly Islam and the culture of Islam.…

and Ibn Battuta viewed the local people and their ruler. Kublai Khan incorporated Christianity and other religions, and Mansá Músá assimilated Islam into Malian culture. It is important to look at the way each religion altered certain societies. There are differences between the people’s reactions to the religion, and how Polo and Battuta’s own culture and personality affected their perceptions of different societies. As a result, it becomes clear that the personal biases of Marco Polo and Ibn…

Renowned for traveling through much of North Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Arabia Ibn Battuta and Shaihu Umar recounted their travels, dictated from memory. Each man experienced life in exceedingly different circumstances including quality of life, social status, and religious customs. Battuta and Umar emerged from distinctive social locations. For Ibn Battuta, Shaihu Umar, two men of God traveling five hundred years apart, religion is governed by their values, experiences, and cultural…

One is that when Ibn Battuta traveled to Mali while it was under Sulayman’s reign, he noticed a lot of religion being practiced around the empire. It was much more noticeable than when Musa was reigning, all that was noticed from him was that they made a great pilgrimage to the Mecca. Battuta observed that they learned the Koran by heart and were very devoted to their religion by praying multiple times a day. Ibn Battuta also noticed that the crime in Mali during Sulayman’s…

Africa. They relied a lot on trade, and particularly the trade of gold. Islam was introduced to Mali by trade and it affected them in many ways. Ibn Battuta was considered one of the greatest medieval Arab travelers. “While in Mali in West Africa, he wrote his observations about the Mali people, who interwove their traditional customs with Muslim practices.” Ibn Battuta’s writings reveal that Mali takes Islam very seriously, and they live very closely to the Koran and 5 pillars. (TCI,23) One of…