Ibn Battuta: Voyages III. India, Far East, Spain and Sudan

Ibn Battûta, a North African traveler from the beginning of the ^14th century, is known as the “traveler of Islam”. He travels through all of the Islamic countries, from Mali to Sumatra and from Kenya to the Russian steppes. His thirty years of peregrinations through a fragmented, torn Islamic world converge towards a single goal: to prove that the community exists and that through its religious and social practice, through its solidarity, it remains indivisible. This complete publication, in three volumes, includes the French translation by C. Defremery and BR Sanguinetti (1853-1858). By the extent of the introductions to each volume, by the richness of the notes and by its maps, this edition aims to put this essential text of Islam within the reach of a wide audience while providing it with the necessary elements for its understanding. . In this volume: India, the Far East, Spain and Sudan , the author is sent to China by the Sultan of Dihti. After a series of adventures which lead him to southern India, Ceylon and the Maldives, he visited Indonesia and pushed on to the ports of southern China. Back in Morocco, he visits Spain and finally leads a Moroccan embassy into the court of the black emperor of Mali.