Frases de Ibn Battuta

Shams ad-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Luwati at-Tanyi , más conocido como Ibn Battûta , fue un viajero y explorador de la época de la dinastía Meriní, nacido en Tánger el 17 de rayab del año 703 de la Hégira, correspondiente al 25 de febrero de 1304, y muerto en 1377.

Es el más conocido de los grandes viajeros musulmanes; su rihla o periplo por el Oriente duró veinte años, que relató con detalle en una crónica dictada al estudioso granadino Ibn Yuzayy, a instancias del sultán marínida . Prácticamente todo lo que se sabe de su vida procede de este relato que, aun siendo fantasioso o exagerado en algunos puntos, es el retrato más fiel que existe de la parte del mundo que el viajero recorrió en esa época. En su viaje cubrió una distancia mayor que la de su contemporáneo Marco Polo, recorriendo en total el oeste, centro y norte de África, parte del sur y el este de Europa, Oriente medio, la India, Asia central, el sureste asiático y China.

En 1976 la Unión Astronómica Internacional llamó «Ibn Battuta» a un astroblema lunar en su honor.[1]​ El aeropuerto de Tánger, su ciudad natal, también lleva su nombre. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. febrero 1304 – 1377
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Ibn Battuta: Frases en inglés

“[Ibn Battuta’s description of the preparation of samosa would make one’s mouth water even today:] “Minced meat cooked with almond, walnut, pistachios, onion and spices placed inside a thin bread and fried in ghee.””

Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 1
Travels in Asia and Africa (Rehalã of Ibn Battûta)

“One day I rode in company with ‘Alã-ul-mulk and arrived at a plain called Tarna at a distance of seven miles from the city. There I saw innumerable stone images and animals, many of which had undergone a change, the original shape being obliterated. Some were reduced to a head, others to a foot and so on. Some of the stones were shaped like grain, wheat, peas, beans and lentils. And there were traces of a house which contained a chamber built of hewn stone, the whole of which looked like one solid mass. Upon it was a statue in the form of a man, the only difference being that its head was long, its mouth was towards a side of its face and its hands at its back like a captive’s. There were pools of water from which an extremely bad smell came. Some of the walls bore Hindî inscriptions. ‘Alã-ul-mulk told me that the historians assume that on this site there was a big city, most of the inhabitants of which were notorious. They were changed into stone. The petrified human form on the platform in the house mentioned above was that of their king. The house still goes by the name of ‘the king’s house’. It is presumed that the Hindî inscriptions, which some of the walls bear, give the history of the destruction of the inhabitants of this city. The destruction took place about a thousand years ago…”

Lahari Bandar (Sindh) . The Rehalã of Ibn Battûta translated into English by Mahdi Hussain, Baroda, 1967, p. 10.
Travels in Asia and Africa (Rehalã of Ibn Battûta)

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