The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century (65 page)

Dome of the Rock

Dondra

Don river

Dugha, official in Mali

East African coast, society and economy of

Eastern Hemisphere, as subject of history
see
intercommunicating zone

Eastern Maghrib
see
Ifriqiya

Ecumene, Afro-Eurasian
see
intercommunicating zone

education, Islamic

curriculum

in Morocco

in Mecca

memorization in

Egridir

Egypt

ancient ruins of

Black Death in

see also
Cairo, Mamluk sultanate

Egypt, upper

Ephesus
see
Aya Suluk

Erzincan

Erzurum

Ethiopia

Euphrates river

Europe, Black Death in

Faid, map

Famagusta

faqih
, defined

farba
(governor)

Fars

Fatima, daughter of Muhammad

Fatimid dynasty

Fattan
see
Pattan

Feast of the Sacrifice

Fez

as center of learning

founding of

maps

Marinid capital

society and economy

Fez Jdid (New Fez)

fityan
associations

fiqh

see also
legal schools,
shari’a

forty days, as conventional figure

Frescobaldi (Italian traveler)

Fua Mulak island

see also
Maldive islands

Fuengirola
see
Suhayl

Fujian
see
Fukien province

funduq see khan

Fustat

futuwwa

see also fityan
associations

Fuzhou

Gabès

Gabriel, angel

Galata

Galilee

Gallipoli

Gampola

Gandhar

Gao

Ganges river

Gaykhatu, khan

Gaza

Genii river

Genoa, Genoese

Ghadamès

Ghana

al-Ghari, Kamal al-Din ’Abdallah

Ghassana
see
Bayt al-Faqih

Ghazan, ilkhan

ghazis

see also
Turks

Ghazna

Ghaznavid dynasty

Ghiyath al-Din, sultan

Ghurid dynasty

al-Ghuta

Gibb, Sir Hamilton

Gibraltar, strait of, historical importance of

Gibraltar (city)

Goa
see
Sandapur

Golan Heights

gold, of African Sudan

Golden Horde

see also
Kipchak, khanate of

Golden Horn

Goynuk

Granada, kingdom of
see
Nasrid sultnate

Granada (city)

Grand Canal

Grand Kabylie mountains

Great Swamp

Greeks
see
Byzantine empire; Christianity, Christians, in Anatolia; Constantinople

griot

Guardafui, Cape
see
Ras Asir

Guinea, republic of

Gujarat

Gumushane

Gupta empire

Gwalior

Hacho, Mount

hadith
, defined

al-Hadrami, ’Abdullah ibn Muhammad vizier

Hafsid sultanate

Hagia Sophia

Hajar mountains

hajj

rites of

see also
caravans

al Hajj (title)

hajjis

Hakluyt Society

Haleb
see
Aleppo

Hali

al-Hallaniyah

Hamadan

Hamid, amirate of

hammam

Hanafi legal school
see
legal schools

Hanbali legal school
see
legal schools

Hangzhou

Haram, in Mecca

al-Harawi, Muhammad

Harun al-Rashid, caliph

al-Hasa

Hasan, son of ’Ali

al-Hasan, sultan

al-Hasani, Abu Muhammad ’Abdallah

al-Hawih, Pehlewan Muhammad

Hazar Sutun
see
Thousand Pillars, Hall of the

Hebron

Herat

Hijaz, Hijaz mountains

Hijaz railway

al-Hilla

Hinawr
see
Honavar

Hindu Kush

Hindus

influence on Islamic art

in revolt against sultanate

on west coast of India

under Muslim rule

Hiw

Hodgson, Marshall

Hoggar mountains
see
Ahaggar mountains

Holy Land
see
Judaea, Palestine

Holy Sepulchre, church of the

Horns

Honavar

Honein

Hoysalas kingdom

Hu
see
Hiw

Huang He

al-Hufuf

see also
al-Hasa

Hukkar mountains
see
Ahaggar mountains

Hulegu, ilkhan

Hurmuz (city)

Hurmuz sultanate

Hurnasab, wife of Ibn Battuta

Husayn, Qutb al-Din

Husayn, son of ’Ali

Husuni Kubwa

Ibadis

Iberia, Iberian peninsula

Christian conquest of

Ibn ’Asim, Abu l’Kasim

Ibn al-Athir

Ibn al-Khatib

Ibn al-Rifa’i, Ahmad

Ibn Battouta
(boat)

Ibn Battuta, Abu ’Abdallah Muhammad

academic and legal studies

adminstration of tomb

allegiance to Dar al-Islam

and Muhammad Tughluq

and plot to conquer Maldive islands

and Sufism

appointed envoy to China

arrested in Delhi

attitude toward Jews

attitude toward people of the Sudan

attitude toward Shi’a

captured by bandits

character and personality

children of

compared to Marco Polo

Constantinople journey

early life and education

East Africa journey

expenditures in India

family of

illnesses of

in Anatolia

in Arabia and Yemen

in Bengal

in Ceylon

in Chagatay khanate

in China

income and gifts received

in Delhi

in Egypt

in Ifriqiya

in Iraq and Persia

in Kipchak khanate

in Ma’bar sultanate

in Maldive islands

in Mali (Sudan)

in Mecca

in northern India

in Southeast Asia

in Spain

in Syria and Palestine

in west coastal India

journey across North Africa

journeys across Sahara desert

languages of

later life and death

marriages

miles traveled

return to Morocco

service as
qadi

slaves and concubines of

summary of life

see also Rihla

Ibn Hajar

Ibn Jubayr

quoted

Ibn Juzayy, Abu ’Abdallah Muhammad

collaboration with Ibn Battuta

scholarship of

Ibn Khafif, Abu ’Abdallah

Ibn Khaldun, ’Abd al-Rahman

Ibn Majid, Ahmad

Ibn Mansur, ’Ali

Ibn Marzuk, Muhammad

Ibn Mustafa, ’Abd al-Rahman

Ibn Sulayman, al-Hasan, sultan

Ibn Taymiyya

Ibn ’Ujayl, Ahmad

Ibn Wadrar, Abu Ziyan, vizier

Ibn Ziri

Ibrahim, ship’s captain

Ibyar

‘Id al-Adha
see
Feast of the Sacrifice

‘Id al-Fitr

Idfu

Idhaj

al-Idrisi

Ifriqiya

ihram (garment and state of sanctity)

ijaza (certificate)

Ilkhan, defined

Ilkhans, khanate of the

Chinese influence on

conversion to Islam

disintegration of

map

rule in Anatolia

wars of

imam

prayer leader

shi’a leader

In Azaoua

Ince Minare,
madrasa

India, west coast, society and trade of

see also
Bengal; Delhi, sultanate of; Ma’bar sultanate

Indian Ocean

Indo-Muslims

Indonesia

Indus river

intercommunicating zone, defined

Iran
see
Persia

Irano-Semitic region

Iraq

see also
Baghdad; Ilkhans, khanate of the

Iraq al-Ajami

Irtisch river

Isaac

Isfahan

Islam

and Black Death

beginnings of

egalitarianism in

expansion of: in Africa

in Anatolia

in China and Southeast Asia

in India

in Indian Ocean region

in Kipchak khanate

in Maldive islands

western historical view of

see also
Shi’ism

Izeh
see
Idhaj

Izmir

Izmit

Iznik

Jabal al-Musa
see
Hacho, Mount

Jabal Sabir

Jacob

Jaffna, kingdom

Jahanpanah

Jains

Jalali

jalba

Jam

Jamal al-Din Muhammad, sultan

Jamboli

Jandarids, amirate of the

Jarun (Jirun)

Java

Jaxartes river
see
Syr Darya river

Jazira

Jazirat al-Maghrib

Jazirat ibn ’Umar
see
Cizre

Jerusalem

Jibal

Jibla
see
Jubla

Jidda

jihad

Joseph

Jubla

Judaea

judge
see qadi

junks, Chinese
see
ships

Jurfattan
see
Cannanore

jurists
see faqih
; legal schools; scholars, Muslim

Juvaini, ’Ata Malik

Ka’ba

Kabara

Kabis
see
Gabès

Kabul

Kaffa

Kafur, sultanate official

Kainuk
see
Goynuk

Kairouan, battle of

kakam

see also
ships

Kakula
see
Qaqula

Kanara

Kanauj

Karakorum

Karaman

Karasi, amirate of

Karawiyin mosque

Karbala

Karsakhu

Kashmir

Kastamonu

Kawkaw
see
Gao

Kawlam
see
Quilon

Kaylukari

Kayseri

Kazarun

Keita clan

Kenya

Kerch

Kerman

Kermanshah

Khadija, queen

al-Khalil
see
Hebron

Khalil, Maliki scholar

Khalji, ’Ala al-Din

Khalji dynasty

al-Khammar, ’Aziz

khan
(caravansary)

khanqa

see also zawiya

Khansa
see
Hang-chou

khatun

Khawak pass

Khidr, Indian scholar

khirqa

Khubilai Khan

Khunj

Khunju Pal
see
Khunj

Khurasan

khutba

Khwaja Jahan

Khwarizm

Khyber pass

Kil’a Ray Pithora

Kilwa

Kinalos island

see also
Maldive islands

Kinbaya
see
Cambay

Kipchak, khanate of

al-Kiswa (village)

kiswa
(Ka’ba covering)

Koil

Konkan

Konya

Korea

Kose Dagh, battle of

Kuang-chou
see
Canton

Kubbat al-Skhra
see
Dome of the Rock

Kufa

Kuma river

Kumish
see
Gumushane

Kunakar

Kuria Muria islands

Kuzey Anadolou Daghlari
see
Pontic mountains

Ladhiq

Ladiqiya
see
Latakia

Lahari

Lahore

Lajazzo
see
Ayas

Lar

Laranda
see
Karaman

Las Navas de Tolosa, battle of

Latakia

lateen sail

law, Islamic
see shari’a
, legal schools

Lawata

Lee, Samuel

legal schools

Hanafi

Hanbali

Maliki: in Damascus

in
Egypt

in India

in Maldive islands

in North Africa

Shafi’i

Leo Africanus

Levantine coast

Libya

Little Armenia

Little Kabylie mountains

liwan

Luristan

Lurs

Luxor

Ma’an

Ma’bar sultanate

Manzikert, battle of

al-Machar

Machul

McNeill, William

Madagascar

madhhab see
legal schools

madrasas

architecture of

origin and spread of

Madurai

Maghrib

kingdoms of

pilgrimage and trade routes of

mahalla

Maharashtra

Mahdali dynasty

mahmal

Mahtuli

Majd al-Din

Majorca

el-Mahalla el-Kubra

al-Makhdumah Jahan

Malabar

Malacca, strait of

Malaga

Malamir
see
Idhaj

Malaya

Malayalam

Malay states

Maldive islands

geography of

government of

map

society and economy

Male

Mali

army and government

ceremonies of
mansas

location of capital

map

religious policies of
mansas

rise of

sex relations in

see also mansas

al-Malik al-Zahir Ahmad, sultan

Malik ibn ’Anas

Maliki legal school
see
legal schools

Malinke

Malosmadulu atoll

see also
Maldive islands

mamluks, defined

Mamluk sultanate

and Yemen

government of

in upper Egypt

maps

origin and rise of