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21 found"Tim Mackintosh-Smith's travel documentary In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3"
"Travels with a Tangerine: Travels in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah and The Hall of a Thousand Columms: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah — Books by Tim Mackintosh-Smith"
"“First of all, daughters of Kafir Rajas captured during the course of the year, come and sing and dance. Thereafter they are bestowed upon Amirs and important foreigners. After this daughters of other…"
"Ibn Battutah while in Bengal says that a pretty kaniz could be had there for one gold dinar . "I purchased at this price a very beautiful slave girl whose name was Ashura. A friend of mine also bought…"
"The country we had to traverse was an impenetrable jungle of trees and reeds. The Sultan ordered that every one in the army, great and small alike, should carry a hatchet to cut down these obstacles. …"
"The Longest Hajj: The Journeys of Ibn Battuta — Saudi Aramco World article by Douglas Bullis"
"The mosque of 'Amr is highly venerated and widely celebrated. The Friday service is held in it and the road runs through it from east to west. The madrasas of Cairo cannot be counted for multitude. As…"
"On the bank of the Nile opposite Old Cairo is the place known as The Garden, which is a pleasure park and promenade, containing many beautiful gardens, for the people of Cairo are given to pleasure an…"
"“The king of China had sent valuable gifts to the sultan, including a hundred slaves of both sexes, five hundred pieces of velvet and silk cloth, musk, jewelled garments and weapons, with a request th…"
"“One day I rode in company with ‘Alã-ul-mulk and arrived at a plain called Tarna at a distance of seven miles from the city. There I saw innumerable stone images and animals, many of which had undergo…"
"Reliable men among the inhabitants of the islands, like the jurist and teacher 'Alî, the judge 'Abdullãh - and others besides them - told me that the inhabitants of these islands were infidels. Subseq…"
"Ibn "Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354" — excerpts from H. A. R. Gibb's translation"
"“Minced meat cooked with almond, walnut, pistachios, onion and spices placed inside a thin bread and fried in ghee."
"There are a large number of religious establishments which they call khanqahs, and the nobles vie with one another in building them. Each of these is set apart for a separate school of darwishes, most…"
"most illustrious and opened-handed ruler... He was constantly engaged in warring for the Faith and in raiding expeditions... His subjects also take a pleasure in warring for the Faith and voluntarily …"
"“Near the eastern gate of the mosque lie two very big idols of copper connected together by stones. Every one who comes in and goes out of the mosque treads over them. On the site of this mosque was a…"
"So history has to be studied, it is very painful history. But it is not more painful than most countries have had. ...It isn't India alone that has had a rough time, that has to be understood. But the…"