Ibn Battuta Sparknotes

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
The Adventure of Ibn Battuta gives a historical account by Ross Dunn concerning the Islam world during the 1400s. The report is based on the coeval book created concerning the journey of Ibn Battuta. Ibn Battuta hailed from the Province of Tangier in Morocco in which he had education in legal matters. The travels of this young scholar spanned some countries and regions; Sub-Saharan Africa; the Northern parts of Africa; the Middle East; Palestine; Persia; China; and India. The Sultan of Morocco assigned a writer who went with Ibn Battuta during his adventure. With the help of this writer, Ibn Battuta was able to describe his journey on a traditional "Rihla." It is this Rihla that gives Dunn a starting rubric which he uses to describe the vastness of the Islam Kingdom. In his book, Dunn indicates that the Dar al-Islam constituted the various kingdoms in which the leaders practiced and enacted Islamic laws. (Dunn, 1986) argues that "the reach of Islam is so great that even though Ibn Battuta moves more widely than most other people of his day, he is infrequently unable to find practicing Muslims to show him
Dunn shows the readers how in every place Ibn Battuta went; he was welcomed with great hospitality and was as well treated with utmost care as a visitor-and most importantly, a visitor who is a practicing Muslim (Dunn, 1986). The Sultan of India trusted him so fast making him serve the position of a judge in his Kingdom. Several other Kings gave him gifts when his time for departure came. All these acts of goodness show how much easy it is for Muslims to show love to strangers as taught in the holy book of the Quran. From these acts it is also evident that trusting a fellow Muslim is quite comfortable than someone who is just a total stranger; this is the reason why Ibn Battuta was made a judge in