Ibn Battuta

Demure · Post by **Demure** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:29 pm

I wanted to read his "Al rixlah" Arabic or English version but having difficulty finding it. Instead there are zillion newer versions published within the last 10 yrs or so. Did anybody read any of the new books about his voyage and recommends it? This is one of the times I wish I paid more attention in some of my classes in School, sadly I don't remember much of the historical stuff. Now that I'm interested in History I find I have little to nothing retained in memory.

Ashlee~ · Post by **Ashlee~** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:32 pm

"What did Ibn Battuta eat in East Africa?

In Zaila, Ibn Battuta complained about the stink of fish and the blood of camel that they slaughter for food.

In Mogadishu, Ibn Battuta and other visitors were treated to stews of chicken, meat, fish and vegetables poured over rice cooked in ghee (butter); green bananas in fresh milk; curdled milk with pickled lemon and pepper, ginger, and mangoes; and other local dishes. He observed that the food was plentiful there: "A single person ... eats as much as a whole company of us would eat ... and they are corpulent and fat in the extreme." (Gibb, vol. II, p. 376) "

Must have been lama goodles Laughing

Demure · Post by **Demure** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:38 pm

Ashlee, did you read the whole thing?

Ashlee~ · Post by **Ashlee~** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:40 pm

Nope. But In have read every excerpt i can get my hands on. I am soooooo lazy. I have the second largest library system in the world in Toronto and i haven't exploited it Laughing

Demure · Post by **Demure** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:49 pm

I rather read the book version than the Online copy.

Ashlee~ · Post by **Ashlee~** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:50 pm

Fair enough.

Kamal35 · Post by **Kamal35** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:50 am

Demure: check this link. You've got there a part of the book...

http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch61 ... Rihla.html

He also visited my city

CrazySommies · Post by **CrazySommies** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:52 am

We have that book at our house. There is only a chapter dealing with the areas we now known to be inhabities by "somalis".

Its interesting to note why he never bothered to stop at a place called "bosaso" but he stopped at Zayla and Muqdisho?

Actually, he prefere to stay at the coast rather than enter Zayla. It was only Muqdisho he descended down to the area which he had meals with the family and friends of some local sultan.

Kamal35 · Post by **Kamal35** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:10 am

Probably because big cities of today were only small villages in that time. He also visited Timbuktu, by the river Niger, and was really disappointed because it was a small and poor place by then...

qudhac-m · Post by **qudhac-m** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:18 am

[quote="Kamal35"]Demure: check this link. You've got there a part of the book...

http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch61 ... Rihla.html

He also visited my city[/quote]

Kamal thnx mate, i read his book in arabic while i was a kid.
I was looking for it as well.

Thanks again

EMINEM. · Post by **EMINEM.** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:07 am

Good read
they should make a movie about this long journey Very Happy

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