A traveller in thirteenth-century Arabia : Ibn al-Mujawir's Tarikh al-mustabsir

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Label

A traveller in thirteenth-century Arabia : Ibn al-Mujawir's Tarikh al-mustabsir

Title remainder

Ibn al-Mujawir's Tarikh al-mustabsir

Statement of responsibility

translated from Oscar Löfgren's Arabic text and edited with revisions and annotations by G. Rex Smith

Creator

• Ibn al-Mujāwir, Yūsuf ibn Yaʻqūb, 1204 or 1205-1291 or 1292

Contributor

• Smith, G. Rex, (Gerald Rex)

Subject

• Arabian Peninsula -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
• Arabian Peninsula -- History -- To 1500
• Ibn al-Mujāwir, Yūsuf ibn Yaʻqūb, 1204 or 1205-1291 or 1292 -- Travel -- Arabian Peninsula

Genre

• Early works to 1800

Language

• eng
• ara
• eng

Summary

"This is the first English translation of the Tarikh al-Mustabsir, written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn al-Mujawir. The text is a fascinating account of the western and southern areas of the Arabian peninsula by a man from the east of the Islamic world, probably from Khurasan in Iran." "Ibn al-Mujawir was a man who in all probability followed the age-old Islamic practice of making the pilgrimage to Mecca and thereafter travelling in the area to further his business interests. His route began in Mecca and essentially ran south through the Red Sea coastal plain, Tihamah, down into the Yemen and along the southern coast of the peninsula. He paused long in Aden, where he observed closely the activities of the port to report at some length on its administration, its taxes, its markets, its currency, its weights and measures, and the like. His route then continued along the southern coast of Arabia and into the Gulf, and he presumably returned home to the east via Iraq. The author is a wonderful observer of people: their buildings, their dress, their customs, their agriculture, their food and their history." "This book is a unique source for the social and economic history of thirteenth-century south Arabia, written with a humour and wit otherwise unknown in the writings of medieval Islam. The text is of major linguistic importance, too, written as it is in a far from classical Arabic. This translation is fully annotated with an introduction, appendices, glossary and full index, and contains maps and illustrations."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Tarikh al-mustabsir

Cataloging source

UKM

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DS206

LC item number

.I2613 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Hakluyt Society.

Series volume

19