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Inas Hassan - The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Guided Arabic Reader - 9789774167157 - V9789774167157
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The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Guided Arabic Reader

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Description for The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Guided Arabic Reader Paperback. A unique and richly engaging approach to teaching Arabic at the high intermediate to advanced level. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; CJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 230. .
The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Guided Reader is a unique Arabic literature and history textbook for students at the High Intermediate to Advanced level. Ibn Battuta was the greatest traveler of the medieval period, and his narrative provides an unmatched view of medieval civilization from Spain to China, and from Russia to Mali. Students will read the authentic descriptions of Ibn Battuta's encounters with cannibals, desert bandits, Mongol chieftains, and his impressions of wonders from Timbuktu to Constantinople to Quanzhou. This book provides a guided and scaffolded survey of Ibn Battuta's greatest travels through twenty lessons, each with extensive ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
458g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774167157
SKU
V9789774167157
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About Inas Hassan
David DiMeo received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, specializing in Arabic Literature and M.A. from Princeton University in Near Eastern Studies. He is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Arabic program at Western Kentucky University.Inas Hassan has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Arabic linguistics from Alexandria University in Egypt and is currently visiting assistant professor of Arabic at Loyola ... Read more

Reviews for The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Guided Arabic Reader
Dimeo and Hassan seamlessly blend critically important historical, religious, and cultural information about the medieval world together with meticulously planned Arabic grammar and vocabulary lessons. Structured around one of the most important texts of classical Arabic-Ibn Battuta's travels through cosmopolitan Islam of the fourteenth century-this text is the perfect springboard into advanced language study and cultural knowledge.
Jonathan Smolin, Dartmouth ... Read more

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