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Ep 189 - The Travels of Ibn Ba2ta (feat Derek Davison)

Added 2024-10-16 12:00:09 +0000 UTC

patrons, here's your ad-free version of this week's bonus episode, we answered a question from Princess Sparkle Pants. Part 6 of The Name of the Rose book club series drops Friday morning.

folks, we're back with part two of our miniseries on the life and travels of Ibn Battuta, the most well-traveled man of the Middle Ages, and Derek Davison is back to help us out. this time, we look at the final two big journeys of Ibn Battuta's life that take him from Turkey to India to China and back over a 15-year span and then a much shorter one from Tangiers up to Al-Andalus and then down through West Africa to Mali and back home again over 5 years. we also talk about the spread of Islam in the 14th century, how Ibn Battuta managed to avoid the Black Death, and why his arrival was always very bad news for the remaining fragmented parts of the Mongol Empire. it's a lot of fun and we want to thank Derek once again for taking the time to come on the show.

attachments show Ibn Battuta's final two journeys, both taken from Wikipedia