“You are the traveller of the arabs and of the non-arabs”: the limits of Dar al-Islam and its contact zones in Ibn Battuta (703-770 H./1304-1369 AD)
Journal: LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)
Year: 2024

This dissertation establishes an analysis of the representations of the Other within the limits of Dar al-Islam based on the account of Ibn Battuta (1304-1369/703-770). Born in the Maghreb, Ibn Battuta was an Arabized Muslim who traveled for almost thirty years across a territory spanning from the African Sahel to East Asia. After returning to his native region, led by the Marinid dynasty (c. 1244-1465), he dictated to the scribe Ibn Juzayy (d. 1357/758) what he had experienced, heard and felt.