Ibn Battuta
Subtitle: le voyageur de l'Islam = The traveler of Islam = El viajero del Islam, 1304-1377
By: ed., Jordi Savall
Contributors: Savall, Jordi, conductor; Hespèrion XXI (Musical group)
Publisher: Alia Vox
Published: 2018
Place of publication: [Bellaterra, Spain]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9788494631122
Subjects: Travel; Islamic Empire; Description and travel; Voyages and travels; Chamber music; Music
Other titles: Voyageur de l'Islam.; Traveler of Islam.; Viajero del Islam.
Description: "Ibn Battuta, dubbed the traveler of Islam, was a Moroccan scholar who at the age of 21 began a series of travels that eventually covered all of the Muslim world and several lands beyond. He traversed the Middle East, making the pilgrimage to Mecca and seeing the other great capitals of the region; traveled to what was then El Andalus in Spain and along the Mediterranean coast; recorded the glories of the Byzantine empire in its later stages; traveled to India, where he was appointed the Sultan's ambassador to China and described that culture as well; and definitely made it as far as what is now the western part of Indonesia and perhaps even to Java and the Philippines (the location of a land he called Talawisi is disputed)... Savall depicts not only Ibn Battuta's impressions but the historical events he witnessed or those of which he experienced in the aftermath. This two-disc set will give listeners a knowledge of a great swath of important but mostly (to Westerners) unfamiliar world history as Islam advanced in Byzantium and Central Asia but lost ground in Spain. The program is put together from two live concerts, one in Abu Dhabi in 2014, and one in Paris two years later. The first one covered the first half of Ibn Battuta's career; the second, his later life. The two halves don't fit together perfectly as a single piece (for example, the first half is narrated in English, while the second is in French), but the method is the same throughout: Ibn Battuta's life is narrated, excerpts from his writing are given and accompanied by appropriate music, and instrumental or vocal pieces for each locale are reconstructed..."--barnesandnoble.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Hespèrion XXI ; Jordi Savall, violes da gamba & conductor.

Text in French, English, Castilian, Catalan, German, Arabic and Italian.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1. Itinerary: Part I. From Marocco to Afghanistan, 1304-1335. 1304 : Tangier; title: 1311-1315 : Apogee of The Muslim Empire of mali; title: 1324 : Death of Marco Polo; title: 1325 : Marocco; title: Egypt; title: 1326 : El Cairo; title: Jerusalem-Damascus; title: In Damascus; title: 1326 : Death of Osman I; title: 1326 : Arabia : Mecca; title: 1326-1327 : Iraq-Persia; title: 1328-1330 : Yemen-Zanzibar; title: 1329 : Battle of Pelekanon; title: 1331 : Oman and the Persian Gulf; title: 1332-1333 : Anatolia; title: 1334 : Ukraine and Constantinople; title: Samarcand; title: 1334-1335 : Central Asia.; title: Disc 2. Ininerary: Part II. 1335 : Afghanistan, India, China, Bagdad, Grenada, Mali and back to Fez; title: 1336 : Fonding of the kingdom of Vijayanagar by Prince Bukka. Ibn Battuta arrives in India, where he will remain for seven years. While there, he is the guest of Sultan of delhi, Muhammad ibn Tughluq; title: 1344 : Ibn Battuta travels to the Maldives; title: 1345 : He travels to South Asia, visiting Sandabur (Goa) and China as the ambassador of the Indian sultan; title: 1345 : Beginning of China's colonisation of South-West Asia; title: 1346 : The long journey home to Morocco via Baghdad and Aleppo (1348); title: 1350 : He visits al-Andalus: Grenada; title: 1352 : Ibn Battuta crosses the Sahara; title: 1353 : He visits the Empire of Mali; title: 1354 : Pedro III conquers Sardinia; title: 1356 : Zhu Yuanshang revolts against the Mongols; title: 1357 : Back in Fez, Ibn Battuta starts work on the chronicle of his Travels: The Rihla; title: 1359 : Murat I sycceeeds his father, Sultan Ohrhan Gazi; title: 1368 : Siege of Baeza; title: 1368 : Yuan Mongols are expelled from Beijing. Founding of the Ming Dynasty; title: 1377? : Death of Ibn Battuta.