Ibn Battuta Economic Observations

  ibn battuta economic observations: The Travels of Ibn Batūta Ibn Batuta, 1829
  ibn battuta economic observations: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta Ross E. Dunn, 2005 Ross Dunn's classic retelling of the travels of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim of the 14th century.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment Ahmet T. Kuru, 2019-08 Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Islamic Central Asia Scott Cameron Levi, Ron Sela, 2010 An anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. It illustrates important aspects of the social, political, and economic history of Islamic Central Asia. It covers the period from the 7th-century Arab conquests to the 19th-century Russian colonial era and provides insights into the history and significance of the region.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Monsoon Islam Sebastian R. Prange, 2018-05-03 Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in battle, and defined by the reality of Muslims living within non-Muslim societies. Focusing on India's Malabar Coast, the much-fabled 'land of pepper', Prange provides a case study of how Monsoon Islam developed in response to concrete economic, socio-religious, and political challenges. Because communities of Muslim merchants across the Indian Ocean were part of shared commercial, scholarly, and political networks, developments on the Malabar Coast illustrate a broader, trans-oceanic history of the evolution of Islam across monsoon Asia. This history is told through four spaces that are examined in their physical manifestations as well as symbolic meanings: the Port, the Mosque, the Palace, and the Sea.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Ibn Battuta in Black Africa Ibn Batuta, Said Hamdun, Noel Quinton King, 2005 An important document about Black Africa written by a non-European medieval historian. He wrote disapprovingly of sexual integration in families and of hostility toward the white man. His description is a document of the high culture, pride, and independence of Black African states in the fourteenth century.
  ibn battuta economic observations: The Roman Market Economy Peter Temin, 2017-09-05 What modern economics can tell us about ancient Rome The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden age of the seventeenth century. The Roman Market Economy reveals how economics can help us understand how the Roman Empire could have ruled seventy million people and endured for centuries.
  ibn battuta economic observations: In Bengal Muhammad Ibn Battuta, 2018-03-20 One of the distant regions visited by the intrepid 14th century Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta was East Bengal. At that time what is now Bangladesh comprised parts of three different kingdoms, Bengal, Lakhnauti and Kamrup. After a brief stay in Bengal proper Ibn Battuta proceeded to what is now Sylhet, in Kamrup, to visit the renowned Muslim saint Sheikh Jalaluddin Tabrizi (nowadays known as Hazrat Shah Jalal). This book, which is primarily intended for English-speaking students of Arabic, contains the pages of Ibn Battuta's travel memoirs which cover his time in East Bengal. Included in the book are the original Arabic text, a transcription in Roman characters, a translation and a comprehensive Arabic-English glossary.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages Houari Touati, 2010-08 In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North Africa, and seeing parts of Europe—they also established both philosophical and geographic boundaries between the faithful and the heathen. These voyages thus gave the Islamic world, which at the time extended from the Maghreb to the Indus Valley, a coherent identity. Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages assesses both the religious and philosophical aspects of travel, as well as the economic and cultural conditions that made the rihla possible. Houari Touati tracks the compilers of the hadith who culled oral traditions linked to the prophet, the linguists and lexicologists who journeyed to the desert to learn Bedouin Arabic, the geographers who mapped the Muslim world, and the students who ventured to study with holy men and scholars. Travel, with its costs, discomforts, and dangers, emerges in this study as both a means of spiritual growth and a metaphor for progress. Touati’s book will interest a broad range of scholars in history, literature, and anthropology.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Hall of a Thousand Columns Tim Mackintosh-Smith, 2011-12-08 All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India. Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. Here Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan's journey - the dizzy ladders and terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge and a hermit, courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. From the plains of Hindustan to the plateaux of the Deccan and the lost ports of Malabar, the author reveals an India far off the beaten path of Taj and Raj. Ibn Battutah left India on a snake, stripped to his underpants by pirates; but he took away a treasure of tales as rich as any in the history of travel. Back home they said the treasure was a fake. Mackintosh-Smith proves the sceptics wrong. India is a jewel in the turban of the Prince of Travellers. Here it is, glittering, grotesque but genuine, a fitting ornament for his 700th birthday.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism Benedikt Koehler, 2014-06-17 Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism proposes a strikingly original thesis—that capitalism first emerged in Arabia, not in late medieval Italian city states as is commonly assumed. Early Islam made a seminal but largely unrecognized contribution to the history of economic thought; it is the only religion founded by an entrepreneur. Descending from an elite dynasty of religious, civil, and commercial leaders, Muhammad was a successful businessman before founding Islam. As such, the new religion had much to say on trade, consumer protection, business ethics, and property. As Islam rapidly spread across the region so did the economic teachings of early Islam, which eventually made their way to Europe. Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism demonstrates how Islamic institutions and business practices were adopted and adapted in Venice and Genoa. These financial innovations include the invention of the corporation, business management techniques, commercial arithmetic, and monetary reform. There were other Islamic institutions assimilated in Europe: charities, the waqf, inspired trusts, and institutions of higher learning; the madrasas were models for the oldest colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. As such, it can be rightfully said that these essential aspects of capitalist thought all have Islamic roots.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia A. C. S. Peacock, 2019-10-17 A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Empires of Medieval West Africa David C. Conrad, 2010 Explores empires of medieval west Africa.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia Karl Hutterer, 1978-01-01 Economic behavior is governed by two major sets of boundary conditions: environmental and technological factors on the one hand, and conditions of social organization on the other hand. Indeed, social scientists are often particularly interested in the framework of exchange relationships: exchange of goods, services, personnel, and information. Economic exchanges lend concrete manifestations to social relations that themselves may transcend the economic realm and that otherwise are often difficult to trace. Yet in social science research in Southeast Asia, the area of economic studies has lagged behind, despite the great study potential represented by the tremendous diversity of its physical and human environment. Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia attempts to take advantage of that opportunity. As a number of the contributions to this volume show, many if not most of the systems organized on very different levels of integration interact with each other. Taken as a whole, they provide evidence of the incredible diversity of economic and social systems that may be investigated in Southeast Asia.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614 Brian A. Catlos, 2014-03-20 An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.
  ibn battuta economic observations: A Splendid Exchange William J. Bernstein, 2009-05-14 A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization. How did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world? In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Birth of Plenty, traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today. Journey from ancient sailing ships carrying silk from China to Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly on spices in the sixteenth; from the American trade battles of the early twentieth century to the modern era of televisions from Taiwan, lettuce from Mexico, and T-shirts from China. Bernstein conveys trade and globalization not in political terms, but rather as an ever-evolving historical constant, like war or religion, that will continue to foster the growth of intellectual capital, shrink the world, and propel the trajectory of the human species. “[An] entertaining and greatly enlightening book.” —The New York Times “A work of which Adam Smith and Max Weber would have approved.” —Foreign Affairs “[Weaves] skillfully between rollicking adventures and scholarship.” —Pietra Rivoli, author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
  ibn battuta economic observations: Islam and the Trajectory of Globalization Louay M. Safi, 2021-10-18 The book examines the growing tension between social movements that embrace egalitarian and inclusivist views of national and global politics, most notably classical liberalism, and those that advance social hierarchy and national exclusivism, such as neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and national populism. In exploring issues relating to tensions and conflicts around globalization, the book identifies historical patterns of convergence and divergence rooted in the monotheistic traditions, beginning with the ancient Israelites that dominated the Near East during the Axial age, through Islamic civilization, and finally by considering the idealism-realism tensions in modern times. One thing remained constant throughout the various historical stages that preceded our current moment of global convergence: a recurring tension between transcendental idealism and various forms of realism. Transcendental idealism, which prioritize egalitarian and universal values, pushed periodically against the forces of realism that privilege established law and power structure. Equipped with the idealism-realism framework, the book examines the consequences of European realism that justified the imperialistic venture into Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America in the name of liberation and liberalization. The ill-conceived strategy has, ironically, engendered the very dysfunctional societies that produce the waves of immigrants in constant motion from the South to the North, simultaneously as it fostered the social hierarchy that transfer external tensions into identity politics within the countries of the North. The book focuses particularly on the role played historically by Islamic rationalism in translating the monotheistic egalitarian outlook into the institutions of religious pluralism, legislative and legal autonomy, and scientific enterprise at the foundation of modern society. It concludes by shedding light on the significance of the Muslim presence in Western cultures as humanity draws slowly but consistently towards what we may come to recognize as the Global Age. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003203360, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Black Morocco Chouki El Hamel, 2014-02-27 Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this viewpoint yields an inaccurate historical record of the people, institutions and social practices of slavery in Northwest Africa. El Hamel focuses on black Moroccans' collective experience beginning with their enslavement to serve as the loyal army of the Sultan Isma'il. By the time the Sultan died in 1727, they had become a political force, making and unmaking rulers well into the nineteenth century. The emphasis on the political history of the black army is augmented by a close examination of the continuity of black Moroccan identity through the musical and cultural practices of the Gnawa.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds Hyunhee Park, 2012-08-27 This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Alberuni's India Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bīrūnī, Eduard Sachau, 1910
  ibn battuta economic observations: Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire Anne F. Broadbridge, 2018-07-18 How did women contribute to the rise of the Mongol Empire while Mongol men were conquering Eurasia? This book positions women in their rightful place in the otherwise well-known story of Chinggis Khan (commonly known as Genghis Khan) and his conquests and empire. Examining the best known women of Mongol society, such as Chinggis Khan's mother, Hö'elün, and senior wife, Börte, as well as those who were less famous but equally influential, including his daughters and his conquered wives, we see the systematic and essential participation of women in empire, politics and war. Anne F. Broadbridge also proposes a new vision of Chinggis Khan's well-known atomized army by situating his daughters and their husbands at the heart of his army reforms, looks at women's key roles in Mongol politics and succession, and charts the ways the descendants of Chinggis Khan's daughters dominated the Khanates that emerged after the breakup of the Empire in the 1260s.
  ibn battuta economic observations: History of Islamic Economic Thought Abdul Azim Islahi, 2014-12-31 This unique book highlights the contributions made by Muslim scholars to economic thought throughout history, a topic that has received relatively little attention in mainstream economics. Abdul Azim Islahi discusses various ways in which Muslim ideas
  ibn battuta economic observations: GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT : A CONTEXTUAL HISTORY OF IDEAS DIKSHIT, R. D, 2018-04-01 The book charts out the history of Geographical Thought from early times to the present day in a single compact volume. Its main focus is on the modern period—beginning with Humboldt and Ritter—more specifically on conceptual developments since the Second World War. NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION The second edition is thoroughly revised and incorporates five new chapters dealing with:  Nature, Method, Basic Ideas and Conceptual Structure of Geography  The Problem of Dualities and How it was Resolved  Nature and Role of Geography as a Social Science—Geographical vs. Sociological Imagination  Time vis-à-vis Space—The Pattern-Process Perspective in Geographic Research  New Directions in the Twenty-First Century Human Geography TARGET AUDIENCE • BA/B.Sc. (Hons.) Geography • BA/B.Sc. (General) Geography • MA/M.Sc. Geography • Aspirants of Civil Services
  ibn battuta economic observations: Economic Empowerment Of Women In The Islamic World: Theory And Practice Toseef Azid, Jennifer L Ward-batts, 2020-06-22 The book, Economic Empowerment of Women in the Islamic World, discusses the economic, social, and political rights and status of women in Islam, which is theoretically given by the Islamic Jurisprudence (Shariah law). The chapters in this volume will address historical practices in comparison to the status of women in the contemporary Muslim world. Men and women in Islam, regardless of their age, social class, and education, are equal as citizens and individuals, but not identical in their rights and responsibilities. It can be observed from Islamic history that in the early age of Islam, women were given full confidence, trust, and high responsibilities in leadership, educational guidance, and decision-making.This volume will try to clarify the confusion in the status of the women in Islam that is presented by the media, as it is assumed that theoretical Islamic empowerment of women bears little relation to the real conditions of women in modern Muslim societies. It has been widely claimed in the media that Muslim women suffer more than men in Muslim societies and communities in terms of insecurity, domestic abuse, and low access to education and medical care. It is also stated in the press and media that absence of good governance also results in gender inequality and violation of the rights of Muslim women.This volume also aims to provide the solutions for the empowerment of women in the Islamic world. We assumed that without good governance, the status of women is not likely to improve. Muslim women have the potential to play a fundamental role in curbing corruption, social ills, violence, and crime in the Muslim world. This volume will make the case that in order to achieve stability and prosperity, the government must ensure a platform for women to participate in decision-making and hence benefit from the rights they are accorded in Islam.By covering a range of perspectives on the economic lives of Muslim women around the world, it hopes to shed light on the problems faced and to offer possible solutions to the empowerment of women in the Islamic world.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Islam in Malaysia Syed Muhd. Khairudin Aljunied, 2019 This book surveys the growth and development of Islam in Malaysia from the eleventh to the twenty-first century, investigating how Islam has shaped the social lives, languages, cultures and politics of both Muslims and non-Muslims in one of the most populous Muslim regions in the world. Khairudin Aljunied shows how Muslims in Malaysia built upon the legacy of their pre-Islamic past while benefiting from Islamic ideas, values, and networks to found flourishing states and societies that have played an influential role in a globalizing world. He examines the movement of ideas, peoples, goods, technologies, arts, and cultures across into and out of Malaysia over the centuries. Interactions between Muslims and the local Malay population began as early as the eighth century, sustained by trade and the agency of Sufi as well as Arab, Indian, Persian, and Chinese scholars and missionaries. Aljunied looks at how Malay states and societies survived under colonial regimes that heightened racial and religious divisions, and how Muslims responded through violence as well as reformist movements. Although there have been tensions and skirmishes between Muslims and non-Muslims in Malaysia, they have learned in the main to co-exist harmoniously, creating a society comprising of a variety of distinct populations. This is the first book to provide a seamless account of the millennium-old venture of Islam in Malaysia.
  ibn battuta economic observations: One Thousand Roads to Mecca Michael Wolfe, 2015-09-29 “Wolfe does an exemplary job of detailing the ceremonies performed at Mecca and the reasons behind them . . . Highly recommended.” —Library Journal, starred review This updated and expanded edition of One Thousand Roads to Mecca collects significant works by observant travel writers from the East and West over the last ten centuries—including two new contemporary narratives—creating a comprehensive, multifaceted literary portrait of the enduring tradition. Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage to Mecca has been the central theme in a large body of Islamic travel literature. Beginning with the European Renaissance, it has also been the subject for a handful of adventurous writers from the West who, through conversion or connivance, managed to slip inside the walls of a city forbidden to non-Muslims. These very different literary traditions form distinct impressions of a spirited conversation in which Mecca is the common destination and Islam the common subject of inquiry. Along with an introduction by Reza Aslan, featured writers include Ibn Battuta, J. L. Burckhardt, Sir Richard Burton, the Begum of Bhopal, John F. Keane, Winifred Stegar, Muhammad Asad, Lady Evelyn Cobbald, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, and Malcolm X. One Thousand Roads to Mecca is a historically, geographically, and ethnically diverse collection of travel writing that adds substantially to the literature of Islam and the West. “Serves as an excellent introduction to a religion, people, culture, and philosophy.” —Santa Cruz Sentinel
  ibn battuta economic observations: Islamic Scholarship in Africa Ousmane Oumar Kane, 2021 Cutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; bridges the europhone/non-europhone knowledge divides to significantly advance decolonial thinking, and extend the frontiers of social science research in Africa.
  ibn battuta economic observations: The Epic of Askia Mohammed Thomas Albert Hale, Thomas A. Hale, 1996-02-22 Askia Mohammed is the most famous leader in the history of the Songhay Empire, which reached its apogee during his reign in 1493-1528. Songhay, approximately halfway between the present-day cities of Timbuktu in Mali and Niamey in Niger, became a political force beginning in 1463, under the leadership of Sonni Ali Ber. By the time of his death in 1492, the foundation had been laid for the development under Askia Mohammed of a complex system of administration, a well-equipped army and navy, and a network of large government-owned farms. The present rendition of the epic was narrated by the griot (or jeseré) Nouhou Malio over two evenings in Saga, a small town on the Niger River, two miles downstream from Niamey. The text is a word-for-word translation from Nouhou Malio's oral performance.
  ibn battuta economic observations: The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 Richard M. Eaton, 1993 Eaton ranges over all the important aspects of that community's history, whether political and social, or cultural and religious...This study must rank among the finest contributions to South Asian scholarship to appear for some while.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Across the Sahara Klaus Braun, Jacqueline Passon, 2020-08-14 This open access book provides a multi-perspective approach to the caravan trade in the Sahara during the 19th century. Based on travelogues from European travelers, recently found Arab sources, historical maps and results from several expeditions, the book gives an overview of the historical periods of the caravan trade as well as detailed information about the infrastructure which was necessary to establish those trade networks. Included are a variety of unique historical and recent maps as well as remote sensing images of the important trade routes and the corresponding historic oases. To give a deeper understanding of how those trading networks work, aspects such as culturally influenced concepts of spatial orientation are discussed. The book aims to be a useful reference for the caravan trade in the Sahara, that can be recommended both to students and to specialists and researchers in the field of Geography, History and African Studies.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 Ibn Batuta, 2005 This edition, translated afresh from the Arabic text, provides extensive notes which enable the journeys to be followed in detail.
  ibn battuta economic observations: The Algerian Dream Andrew Farrand, 2021-04-26 Few outsiders have had the privilege to get to know Algeria and its youth so intimately-or to observe firsthand this pivotal chapter in the nation's history. It's a story that reveals much about the relationship between citizens and leaders, about the sanctity of human dignity, and about the power of dreams and the courage to pursue them. Nearly two-thirds of Algeria's population is under the age of 35. Growing up during or soon after the violent conflict that wracked Algeria during the 1990's, and amid the powerful influences of global online culture, this generation views the world much differently than their parents or grandparents do. The Algerian Dream: Youth and the Quest for Dignity invites readers to discover this generation, their hopes for the future and, most significantly, the frustrations that have brought them into the streets en masse since 2019, peacefully challenging a long-established order. After seven years living and working alongside these young people across Algeria, Andrew G. Farrand shares his insights on what makes the next generation tick in North Africa's sleeping giant.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Travels with a Tangerine Tim Mackintosh-Smith, 2012-03-15 Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador, he braved brigands, blisters and his own prejudices. The outcome was a monumental travel classic. Captivated by this indefatigable man, award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith set out on his own eventful journey, retracing the Moroccan's eccentric trip from Tangier to Constantinople. Tim proves himself a perfect companion to this distant traveller, and the result is an amazing blend of personalities, history and contemporary observation.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Yemen Tim Mackintosh-Smith, 2011-12-08 Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad. Yet even the ordinary Yemenis are extraordinary: their family tree goes back to Noah and is rooted in a land which, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people. Every page of this book is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous.
  ibn battuta economic observations: World Economic Performance D. S. Prasada Rao, B. Van Ark, 2013-07-01 ÔNot only is this excellent collection of papers a fitting tribute to Angus Maddison, it is also a great resource for thinking about future patterns of global economic growth Ð both in the BRICS and the OECD Ð based on key insights from historical experience.Õ Ð Nicholas Crafts, University of Warwick, UK ÔAngus Maddison may no longer be with us, but his spirit is very much alive. This collection of essays Ð including one by Maddison himself Ð shows how the methods he pioneered continue to shed new light on the comparative performance of nations and inspire successive generations of scholars.Õ Ð Barry Eichengreen, University of California at Berkeley, US ÔThe distinguished editors, leading authorities in the field of comparative quantitative economic development, have gathered a stellar group of authors to address arguably the most challenging question of our time: understanding development dynamics over time and across countries. They are to be congratulated for this comprehensive, stimulating and insightful volume. It is a fitting tribute to the late Angus Maddison, an intellectual giant in the study of long-term economic development, to whom the book is dedicated.Õ Ð Hal Hill, Australian National University World economic performance over the last 50 years has been spectacular. The post-war period has witnessed impressive growth rates in Western Europe and Japan, and in recent times, China and India. This new book discusses these issues and tackles topical questions such as: what are the socio-economic and institutional factors that have contributed to this impressive performance? Will China and India continue to grow at the same rate over the next two decades? What are the prospects for Japan, the US and other advanced economies? The book brings together contributions by eminent scholars including the late Angus Maddison, Professors Justin Lin, Bob Gordon, Ross Garnaut, Bart van Ark and others to provide answers to these fascinating questions. The chapters analyse the economic performance of selected countries including China, India, Japan, Indonesia and the US, as well as Western Europe, Latin America and developing countries as a group. The time period of the study is from 1850 to the present and includes forecasts to 2030. This well-documented book will be of considerable interest to development economists and country specialists working on countries such as China and India, economic historians who are interested in explaining the growth performance of countries, economists and economic statisticians who are interested in the measurement issues, and international organizations such as the OECD, World Bank and the UN. General readers and non-specialists who are interested in the world economic performance will also find much to interest them in this book.
  ibn battuta economic observations: Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668 François Bernier, 1891
  ibn battuta economic observations: Ancient Accounts of India and China Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd Sīrāfī, Sulaymān Sīrafī, 1733
  ibn battuta economic observations: Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness Ibn Fadlan, 2012-07-26 In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation. Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes and peoples they encountered traded furs, paid tribute and waged wars. This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the far north.
  ibn battuta economic observations: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta Ross E. Dunn, 2012-06-01 Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.
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Ibn Battuta Economic Observations
Ibn Battuta's Rihla is not an economic treatise, yet his descriptions of markets, currencies, trade routes, and various economic activities paint a vivid picture of a surprisingly interconnected world.

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The first two volumes recorded Ibn Battuta's earliest journeys through Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, Iraq, Asia Minor and South Russia. In this volume he visits Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

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namely, Ibn Battuta's fourteenth-century account of his journeys to East and West Africa, and the other a scholarly study from 1958 focusing on the economic and political relations between North Africa and sub-Saharan

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concrete economic, socio-religious, and political challenges. Because communities of Muslim merchants across the Indian Ocean were part of shared commercial, scholarly, and political networks, developments on the Malabar Coast illustrate a broader, trans-oceanic history of the evolution of Islam

n The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century.
The Moroccan jurist and Suft Ibn BattUta (1304-1369) spent twenty-nine years on the road logging about 75,000 miles while crisscrossing Eurasia and Africa.

Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Interactions - McGraw Hill Education
Crisis and Recovery. One of the great world travelers of all time was the Moroccan legal scholar Ibn Battuta. Born in 1304 at Tangier, Ibn Battuta followed family tradition and studied Islamic law. In 1325 he left Morocco, perhaps for the first time, to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.

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the social and economic life of the people. Transoxiana also got its due and when Ibn Battuta reached there he found the regions in rela-tive peace and prospeiity with a revival of Silk route. Of all the Arab geographers and historians, Ibn Battuta occupies a distinguished place as a medieval traveller and chronicler. He had a

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a great source of social, economic, and religious affairs of Somalia at that time. The following are some geographical observations deduced from Ibn s account. According to Ibn Battuta the Somali people are berbers, black coloured and Moslems. They are Shafiites and most of the people of Zayla are Rafidites. The main occupation is camel

SOCIAL LIFE OF MEDIEVAL MALABAR AS NOTICED BY IBN BATTUTA …
Social divisions observed in the account of Ibn Battuta. He notices the Hindu and Muslim in the population. Although Muslims were highly honoured by the Hindus, untouchability and pollution existed among them. He observed, 'it is the custom of the infidels in the Malabar lands that no Muslim may enter their houses or eat from their vessels.

Measuring the Travels of Two Adventurers: Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 and Marco Polo: A Journey Through China. (Choose parts that emphasize the motivation behind the travels and distances traveled.) 2. Project and distribute the Ibn Battuta and the Marco Polo maps. Review how to locate places, measure with a scale, and convert distances (miles and kilometers). 3.

Ibn Battuta's Journey by Land and by Sea: Investigating Cultural …
following questions: How can Ibn Battuta's story reflect the events of his day? What are the differences between what Ibn Battuta writes and what you know about the regions known as Africa and Eurasia?

Document A: Ibn Battuta’s Rihla (Part 1)
Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta is known for his extensive travels throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia. His travel account, written after his return home to Tangier in 1355, offers historians insight into social, political, economic and cultural context of the 14th century.

IBN BATTUTA - school.bighistoryproject.com
During the life of Ibn Battuta, Islamic civilization stretched from the Atlantic coast of West Africa across northern Africa, the Middle East, and India to Southeast Asia.

IBN BATTUTA - OER Project
In Damascus, Ibn Battuta slept and studied in a madrassa. Damascus had the largest number of famous religious and legal scholars in the Arab-speaking world. Ibn Battuta then fulfilled the prophesies of the various seers he’d met. First he traveled to India. To reach India, he had to cross the Hindu Kush Moun-tains in Afghanistan.

Department of History JOHN 0. VOLL
When Ibn Battuta set out on his journey through this new world, he was simply one traveler among many-pilgrims, merchants, Sufi mystics, students, and scholars-who took to the roads of the Dar al-Islam. The scholars, in particular, constituted an international pool of experts who served Muslim communities and Muslim rulers wher-

The Travels and Journals of Ibn Battuta - Livingston Public Schools
As an adulthood, Ibn Battuta was able to travel widely under the protection of the Islamic religion. As a young man, Abu Abdullah Ibn Battuta studied law. In 1325, he left his homeland and made a holy pilgrimage, or hajj, to Mecca and Medina on the Arabian peninsula.

Unit 2: Topic 2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivity
Economic Observations . Cultural Observations. Ibn Battuta. Marco Polo. Travels of Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo. Use the map on the documents to color this map indicating which route was Ibn Battuta’s and which was Marco Polo’s. What role did trade routes serve for …

An Arab Muslim in West Africa - POHLMANPAVILION
as a visitor from a more-established Islamic society, Ibn Battuta was often highly critical of the quality of Islamic observance in the frontier regions of the faith. One such frontier region was West Africa, where a new civilization was taking shape, characterized by large empires such

Love, Sex, and Marriage in Ibn Battuta's Travels - James Madison …
Ibn Battuta places information vital to his image in an unconventionally sexual passage that could have shocked his audience. But it is possible that Ibn Battuta intended the sexuality of the passage to draw attention to his pious actions. His readers or listeners would have been unlikely

Q.1 What are the comparisons that Ibn Battula makes to
from Ibn-Battuta's account that most cities had crowded streets and bright and colourful markets that were stacked with a wide variety of goods. Ibn Battuta described Delhi as a vast city with a great population, the largest in India. IV. Markets - The …

Ibn Battuta Economic Observations
Ibn Battuta's Rihla is not an economic treatise, yet his descriptions of markets, currencies, trade routes, and various economic activities paint a vivid picture of a surprisingly interconnected world.

Ibn Battuta Economic Observations - goramblers.org
The first two volumes recorded Ibn Battuta's earliest journeys through Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, Iraq, Asia Minor and South Russia. In this volume he visits Uzbekistan, …

Questions of Context - JSTOR
namely, Ibn Battuta's fourteenth-century account of his journeys to East and West Africa, and the other a scholarly study from 1958 focusing on the economic and political relations between …

Ibn Battuta Economic Observations - goramblers.org
concrete economic, socio-religious, and political challenges. Because communities of Muslim merchants across the Indian Ocean were part of shared commercial, scholarly, and political …

n The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century.
The Moroccan jurist and Suft Ibn BattUta (1304-1369) spent twenty-nine years on the road logging about 75,000 miles while crisscrossing Eurasia and Africa.

Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Interactions - McGraw Hill Education
Crisis and Recovery. One of the great world travelers of all time was the Moroccan legal scholar Ibn Battuta. Born in 1304 at Tangier, Ibn Battuta followed family tradition and studied Islamic …

IBN BATTUTA IN TRANSOXIANA - JSTOR
the social and economic life of the people. Transoxiana also got its due and when Ibn Battuta reached there he found the regions in rela-tive peace and prospeiity with a revival of Silk route. …

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a great source of social, economic, and religious affairs of Somalia at that time. The following are some geographical observations deduced from Ibn s account. According to Ibn Battuta the …

SOCIAL LIFE OF MEDIEVAL MALABAR AS NOTICED BY IBN BATTUTA …
Social divisions observed in the account of Ibn Battuta. He notices the Hindu and Muslim in the population. Although Muslims were highly honoured by the Hindus, untouchability and …

Measuring the Travels of Two Adventurers: Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 and Marco Polo: A Journey Through China. (Choose parts that emphasize the motivation behind the travels and distances traveled.) 2. Project and distribute the Ibn …

Ibn Battuta's Journey by Land and by Sea: Investigating Cultural …
following questions: How can Ibn Battuta's story reflect the events of his day? What are the differences between what Ibn Battuta writes and what you know about the regions known as …

Document A: Ibn Battuta’s Rihla (Part 1)
Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta is known for his extensive travels throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia. His travel account, written after his return home to Tangier in 1355, offers …

IBN BATTUTA - school.bighistoryproject.com
During the life of Ibn Battuta, Islamic civilization stretched from the Atlantic coast of West Africa across northern Africa, the Middle East, and India to Southeast Asia.

IBN BATTUTA - OER Project
In Damascus, Ibn Battuta slept and studied in a madrassa. Damascus had the largest number of famous religious and legal scholars in the Arab-speaking world. Ibn Battuta then fulfilled the …

Department of History JOHN 0. VOLL
When Ibn Battuta set out on his journey through this new world, he was simply one traveler among many-pilgrims, merchants, Sufi mystics, students, and scholars-who took to the roads …

The Travels and Journals of Ibn Battuta - Livingston Public Schools
As an adulthood, Ibn Battuta was able to travel widely under the protection of the Islamic religion. As a young man, Abu Abdullah Ibn Battuta studied law. In 1325, he left his homeland and …

Unit 2: Topic 2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivity
Economic Observations . Cultural Observations. Ibn Battuta. Marco Polo. Travels of Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo. Use the map on the documents to color this map indicating which route was …

An Arab Muslim in West Africa - POHLMANPAVILION
as a visitor from a more-established Islamic society, Ibn Battuta was often highly critical of the quality of Islamic observance in the frontier regions of the faith. One such frontier region was …

Love, Sex, and Marriage in Ibn Battuta's Travels - James Madison …
Ibn Battuta places information vital to his image in an unconventionally sexual passage that could have shocked his audience. But it is possible that Ibn Battuta intended the sexuality of the …

Q.1 What are the comparisons that Ibn Battula makes to
from Ibn-Battuta's account that most cities had crowded streets and bright and colourful markets that were stacked with a wide variety of goods. Ibn Battuta described Delhi as a vast city with …