I felt like I needed a book review in here somewhere.I had the privilege of starting this book in the Copenhagen airport on my way to the Middle East. The chapter concerning the Arabian Sea was brief but it felt good to have a small idea of what this amazing 14th century Muslim jurist/traveler may have seen. This is not the primary source, which is on the more difficult side to some by in a good English translation, but Dunn does a great job of giving more back story and historical context than Ibn Battuta would have thought to include in the original text. The pan-Islamic world was larger and far more complex than I could have ever imagined and it was a joy to discover the adventurous spirit of Ibn Battuta.
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