Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was jus...

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes

Gibt es »die« Araber? Tim Mackintosh-Smith folgt ihren Spuren. In Sanaa im Jemen auf der arabisch...

Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attra...

Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he r...

For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances,...

All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception:...

A 14th century thriller in the vein of Robert Harris. It's 1368, and Granada, capital of the Moor...

Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in th...

The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime tr...

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of langua...