This plaque on the church is about the only evidence you'll find of Battuta's visit in the town of Coin.Think Marco Polo was the world's greatest traveler? If you do, it's because you haven't read Ibn Battuta. For whatever reason, be they ethnocentric prejudices, islamophobia or the simple fact that Polo had better PR, Ibn Battuta's epic 14th century journey that took him from Tangier to China and back remains relatively unknown to most.
And within this obscurity lies his least known sojourn, his jihad to the Iberian peninsula in today's Spain. Follow his footsteps in a piece published in Dubai's Khaleej Times.
4 comments:
Dude, this was unbelievable Tangier to China! thanks for sharing this with me..i feel there is know one these days to challenge Polo's work!
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Polo probably better had PR (plus people just seem to like European explorers). Very interesting article
huh didn't mafouz write a nve about this guy...
*novel
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