Travel Narratives: Ibn Battuta & the Dar al-Islam

1. Travel Narratives: Ibn Battuta & the Dar al-Islam

2. Post-Classical Era 600 - 1450 CE • Integration of Afro-Eurasia • Increased interaction  cultural diffusion & syncretism

3. Post-Classical Era 600 - 1450 CE Post-Classical Travelers: • Marco Polo • John of Montecorvino • St Cyril • Rabban Sauma • Xuanzang • Zheng He • Sufis • Ibn Battuta

4. Post-Classical Era 600 - 1450 CE Ibn Battuta

5. Which of the following lists three places Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Muslim traveler, visited? • The Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Japan • The Arabian Peninsula, France, and India • India, Mali, and Persia • India, Persia, and Poland • England, Iraq, and Mali

6. Islam more than a political entity • Inter-civilizational • Transcends geog. & pol. boundaries • Built on shared experience • Islam • Arabic • Hajj Dar-al-Islam: “First Global System”

7. Hajj

8. Dar-al-Islam: “First Global System”

10. Dar-al-Islam: “First Global System”

11. How does the life of Ibn Battuta: • Exemplify Islam as a global system • Exemplify the complexity of conversion

12. Ibn Battuta

13. Author Audience How does the life of Ibn Battuta: 1) Exemplify Islam as a global system 2) Exemplify the complexity of conversion Sig. Prior Knowledge Main idea Reason Place & time

14. Author Audience How does the life of Ibn Battuta: 1) Exemplify Islam as a global system 2) Exemplify the complexity of conversion Sig. Prior Knowledge Main idea “bad qualities” “good qualities” Reason Place & time

15. Post-Classical Era 600 - 1450 CE • Integration of Afro-Eurasia • Increased interaction  cultural diffusion & syncretism