The Broadway Travellers. Ibn Battúta Travels in Asia and Africa. 1325-1354

The complete text of the Travels which was found in Algeria a few years later was published with a French translation and critical apparatus by Defrimery and Sangminetti in the middle of the century from a number of manuscripts one of which containing the second half of the work is the autograph of the original editor Ibn Juzayy. [...] The Turkish captains who had hitherto quarrelled over the mangled fragments of the central provinces were relegated to the frontiers where they Indulged their talk for warfare at the expense of the 16TRAVELS OF IBN BATTOTA infidel and the heathen winning for themselves a goodly portion of the riches of this world and the reputation of Warriors for the Faith " to ensure their portion in the wor [...] Commerce proceeded freely both within and without the frontiers of Islam in spite of heavy dues and occasional vexations; and if the indigenous industries had declined in some cases to the point of extinftion the revival of the 17"SELECTIONS FROM THE European market brought unwonted prosperity to the carrying trade which had not yet to face the formidable competition of the European merchants [...] North-wed Africa called by the Arabs the Maghrib or Wee which together with Muslim Spain had been united under the empires of the Almoravids.and the Almohads in the twelfth century was partitioned in the thirteenth between three dynasties: the Marinids in the Fartheit Wee or Morocco; the Ziyanids in the Central Wee with their capital at Tlemsen; and the Hafsids of Tunis whose province of I [...] When the Normans had wrested the command of the Mediterranean from the Arabs in the eleventh century the commercial expansion of the Italian republics and of Roussillon led to the co25SELECTIONS FROM THE clusion of trading agreements with the Muslim states and the foundation of trading stations in their ports.