The area of Middle Eastern geography and travel has attracted large
numbers of scholars over the last fifty years. This new collection
from Routledge features key articles from the field to create a
major and continuing resource for scholars and students alike. The
first volume concentrates on the Islamic geographers who mapped and
made navigable the routes followed by later travellers. While
travel, and in particular the rihla (or 'travel to Mecca') did not
depend for its impetus on formal geography, both were highlighted
in the travellers' diaries and travelogues which helped to make
known and illuminate the boundaries of an expanding empire. Links
between geography and the pilgrim routes to Mecca and Medina are
particularly significant. Because of their huge significance in
illuminating the medieval world of Islam, a very large number if
articles deal with the travels of Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217) (Volume
II) and Ibn Battuta (1304-368/9 or 1377) (Volume III), while Volume
IV covers the post-medieval and early modern period.
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