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Xuanzang & Ibn Battuta

Xuanzang & Ibn Battuta. Traveler’s Tales and Observations in the Post-Classical Period. Background. Each of these documents was written by an outsider to the people or society he is describing. Ibn Battuta mostly travelled throughout the MUSLIM world (75,000 miles in all)

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Xuanzang & Ibn Battuta

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  1. Xuanzang & Ibn Battuta Traveler’s Tales and Observations in the Post-Classical Period

  2. Background • Each of these documents was written by an outsider to the people or society he is describing. • Ibn Battuta mostly travelled throughout the MUSLIM world (75,000 miles in all) • At the time was WAY bigger than the Christian world • He was born in Morocco • Often not too happy about the way Islam was being practiced by “newer” converts • In this document, he is in West Africa (Mali) in the 1354 after crossing the Sahara with a caravan.

  3. Xuanzang was a Buddhist monk who travelled to India with the goal of getting a better understanding of the religion from its source. • Spends 10 years travelling around India • Returns to China and spends the remainder of his life translating Buddhist texts into Chinese • Most of his writing concerns observations of life in India in the 8th Century

  4. Questions to answer in your notebook for Xuanzang & Ibn Battuta docs. • What attitudes towards these foreign cultures are evident in the sources? • How did religion shape their perception of the places they visited? • How did they view women of their host societies? • What information in these sources would be most valuable for historians seeking to understand India and West Africa during the post classical period (this is a hard one!!)? Use specific information from each document as evidence.

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