traveller in thirteenth-century Arabia
Subtitle: Ibn al-Mujawir's Tarikh al-mustabsir
By: translated by G. Rex Smith.
Contributors: Smith, G. Rex
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780904180916
Subjects: Yemen -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Mecca (Saudi Arabia) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Saudi Arabia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Tārīkh al-muṣtabṣir.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Ibn al-Mujāwir's introduction; title: Ibn al-Mujāwir's route descriptions; title: Ibn al-Mujāwir's parasang; title: Place names; title: Agriculture, crops, fruits, vegetables and food; title: dress and social customs; title: Magic, the wondrous and the bizarre; title: Hstory and buildings; title: Maps and plans and diagrams in the text; title: Trade and commerce; title: Source of social and economic history of Arabia; title: Assessment of the contents.