Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages, Touati, Cochrane
By A Mystery Man Writer
In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North Africa, and seeing parts of Europe—they also established both philosophical and geographic boundaries between the faithful and the heathen. These voyages thus gave the Islamic world, which at the time extended from the Maghreb to the Indus Valley, a coherent identity. Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages assesses both the religious and philosophical aspects of travel, as well as the economic and cultural conditions that made the rihla possible. Houari Touati tracks the compilers of the hadith who culled oral traditions linked to the prophet, the linguists and lexicologists who journeyed to the desert to learn Bedouin Arabic, the geographers who mapped the Muslim world, and the students who ventured to study with holy men and scholars. Travel, with its costs, discomforts, and dangers, emerges in this study as both a means of spiritual growth and a metaphor for progress. Touati’s book will interest a broad range of scholars in history, literature, and anthropology.
Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages: 9780226808772: Touati, Houari, Cochrane, Lydia G.: Books
Shoes, Writing: Unspeaking Writing in the Material Culture of Pre-Islamic Arabia and Early Islam – W86th
A Mediterranean Society at Sea (Part II) - Abraham's Luggage
Travel-General - Medieval Trade and Travel - Research Guides at Saint Louis University Libraries
The Origins of Early Sunni Hadith Criticism, Part 2: The Modern Debate - Islamic Origins
A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800: Empire, Dynastic Formations, and Heterogeneities in Pre-Modern Islamic West-Asia: 9780415660327: Van Steenbergen, Jo: Books
Ibn Battuta: The Journey of a Medieval Muslim by Edoardo Albert by Kube Publishing - Issuu
Three medieval Muslim travellers who explored the world
Religious Travel in the Global Middle Ages
Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration 9780226126968, 9780226127019, 2015017867
Islamic contributions to Medieval Europe – The Muslim Times
Vikings in the South: Voyages to Iberia and the Mediterranean' by Ann Christys by Medieval History Lover - Issuu
Traveling to Acquire Knowledge – By Daniel Majchrowicz
