what Ibn Battuta did. When you think of how hard (and dangerous!) it was to tour flanker in those days‚ it is just amazing. What makes this Deuteronomy in particular fascinating is the appearance it provides into Muslim society. Here was a man who journeyed thousands of miles over many‚ many eon except who nothing except very rarely felt himself to be a stranger in a strange land. In unspecified places Islam was in the majority and in unspecified places it was the minority except Ibn Battuta was always
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Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta both were explorers in the 13th century and although they had similarities‚ they were different in several ways. For example yes both traveled for a long period of time and picked up some of the same cultures but in different view points‚and Battuta was not imprisoned on his way back home. Or how Battuta started his journey with a purpose of visiting Mecca‚ like his religion requires him to do and Polo just took a Gap year to escape from the troubles at home. Marco Polo
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Muhammad ibn Battuta was born in Tangier‚ Morocco. His family was of Berber origins and had a convention of administration as judges. He was famous for his numerous travels to both Muslim and non Muslim regions which includes a big part of eastern Asia. These travels which lasted for almost 24 years has allocated Ibn Battuta the position to be one of the most famous travelers ever. In the wake of accepting a training in Islamic law‚ Ibn Battuta set out in 1325‚ at 21 years old‚ to perform a pilgrimage
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HS*250 Survey of Africa to 1800 Historical Novel Review Guide Conde‚ Maryse (1984) Segu. New York: Ballentine Books What is historical fiction? According to “Historical Novels Review”‚ a historical novel is a novel which is set fifty or more years in the past‚ and one in which the author is writing from research rather than personal experience (Johnson 2002). These are fictionalized stories that are set in a historical reality and can thus portray actual relationships‚ events‚ and people within
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The Travels of Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta started on his travels when he was 20 years old in 1325. His main reason to travel was to go on a Hajj‚ or a Pilgrimage to Mecca‚ as all good Muslims want to do. But his traveling went on for about 29 years and he covered about 75‚000 miles visiting the equivalent of 44 modern countries which were then mostly under the governments of Muslim leaders of the World of Islam‚ or "Dar al-Islam". He met many dangers and had many adventures along the way.
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Ibn Rushd His life: • Ibn Rushd‚ known to Europeans as Averroes‚ was an Arabian philosopher‚ astronomer and writer on jurisprudence who was born in Cordoba in what is now Spain in 1126. He died in Morocco in 1198. • He was educated in Cordoba where his father and grandfather were judges in the court of civil affairs and both had played an important part in the political history of Andalusia. • Ibn Rushd was influential in the fields of jurisprudence‚ medicine and mathematics. • He is mostly
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IBN KHALDUN Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun was born in (1332 AD) in Tunis. He was regarded to be the father of sociology and one of the strongest personalities during the Muslim cultural decline in the Arab world. In this paper I will be demonstrating Ibn Khaldun’s presence‚ thoughts‚ and work. Despite the fact that he lived in the 14th and 15th centuries‚ his thoughts and contributions to humanity are still appropriate for discussion in the 20th century and have become a source of scientific and political
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Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Course: Cult200 Campus: Saida Instructor: Ali Nasser Student Name: Mohmad Yousif ID Number: 31230269 Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd‚ better known in the Latin West as Averroes‚ lived during a unique period in Western intellectual history‚ in which interest in philosophy and theology was waning in the Muslim world and just beginning to flourish in Latin Christendom. Just fifteen years before his birth‚ the great critic of Islamic philosophy‚ al-Ghazzali (1058-1111)
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for religious symbolism Ibn Tufayl is the writer of a philosophical novel called Havy Ibn Yaqzan. The fundamental point of the story is that scientific knowledge‚ which leads to the highest form of human knowledge‚ can be achieved by human reason. This human reason is unaided neither by society’s conventions nor by religion. There is no ambiguity that religion‚ in the context of the story‚ is viewed as a means created by man in an attempt to convey the truth. Ibn Tufayl intends to distinguish
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Introduction Imam Ibn Taymiyyah was born to a family of scholars in an era when Islam was advancing and education was at its peak amongst the Muslims. At a very young age Ibn Taymiyyah was forced to move to Damascus with his family due to the Mongol invasion and was taken as a refugee. While they were moving‚ such was the state that their camels were laden with books and they had to walk. This shows the importance of I’lm they had. Early Years Ibn Taymiyyah had a very sharp memory and used to skip
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