Ibn Battuta part 3

Carl Ernst

Introduction to Islamic Civilization

Places

Jidda, Zabid, San’a, Aden, Mogadishu, Mombasa, Kilwa , Zafar

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Turkish Lands

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Topics and eventsKurdish and Turkish invasion of Yemen, visits by Indian, Ceylonese, and Chinese ambassadors (112-3)

Transition from Irano-Semitic heartland to Indian ocean: Islamic cosmopolitanism (116-7)

Zeila (122): unpleasant smell of fresh fish and slaughtered camels

Port of Mogadishu, Somali and Swahili languages

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More topics and events

Sharifs and sayyids: aristocratic status of descendents of the Prophet (125)

Gold trade and indoor plumbing (127)

Need for a Persian speaking guide (137)

Europeans in Latakia (139), Crimea (159, 162)

Turks, Turkomans, Mongols – Ilkhan vassals, population changes

Franks in Constantinople, 1204-1261

Seven kings of the world (160) 5

Even more topics and events

Byzantine architecture and the Turks

Konya and the brain drain (Rumi)

Akhi fraternal groups (145), futuwwa

The skill of flattery (149), rewards (153-4)

From ghazis to civilized princes (151)

Drowning (154)

Kipchaks (Golden Horde), Crim (159)

Christianize edition of Mongols (162)6

Betel and areca nuts (124, 128): “paan” and the Indian ocean

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Muzaffariyya Mosque, Taizz, Yemen (115). ArchNet

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Aden (119). Center for Arabic Language and Eastern Studies photo

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Husuni Kubwa palace, Kilwa

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Fort of Nizwa, Oman (or Nazwa,131; Ibadi imams temporarily out of power) ArchNet

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Konya, ca. 1865 ArchNet

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Konya: Mevlana Museum ArchNet

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More Sufis

Jidda 112 – prayers and worship

Zabid (Yemen) 114 – storytelling about saint who debated Zaydi Shi`is

Kuria Muria Islands near Oman (129)

Khunj, Persia (131)

Mudurnu, Anatolia (155) – hospice

Al-Qiram or Crimea (164) -- hospice

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Kuria Muria islands (Oman)

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