Marked Tangier

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Ibn Battuta

A young legal scholar from Tangier set out on pilgrimage to Mecca in 1325 and kept travelling for nearly thirty years, to Delhi, the Maldives, China and Mali. He dictated his travels in a book called the Rihla.

Place
Tangier · Mecca · Delhi · Quanzhou · NianiAfrica, The Middle East, Asia
Laid out as
A lifeOne person’s life, from birth to death, and what they left behind.
Lessons
7 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. ILeaving Tangier
  2. IIMecca
  3. IIIA judge in Delhi
  4. IVThe Maldives
  5. VChina
  6. VIMali
  7. VIITelling the story

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Ibn Battuta
  • Ibn Juzayy
  • Muhammad bin Tughluq

Objects

  • Manuscripts of the Rihla

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1304 to 1369. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?