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Tag Archives: Ibn Batuta
true in the sweep
Six and a half centuries ago, the Islamic world saw itself as the unquestioned pinnacle of civilization. What was it really like? The only answer we really have is in the diaries of Ibn Battuta, the wanderlust scholar who clocked … Continue reading
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Tagged Abou Zayd, Abu Zayd, Ibn Battuta diaries, Ibn Batuta, Islamic world history, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moorish Spain, Ottoman capture of Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, The Byzantine Empire
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on the road again
Over six centuries ago, the Islamic world saw itself as the unquestioned pinnacle of civilization. What was it really like? The answer is in the diaries of one Ibn Battuta. One day in the Moslem year 756, 1355 in our … Continue reading
family planning
Population control. The Malthus nightmare. Limited procreation to maintain national characterstics. An affront to bourgeois values, liberal, humanistic axioms. As Allan Greenspan said, “a billion is not what it used to be.” But a billion moslems facing off against an … Continue reading
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Tagged Abou Zayd, Abu Zayd, Allan Greenspan, Christopher Hitchens, Gideon Levy, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Gilles Kepel, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Batuta, Igal Hecht, Kenan Malik, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Mark Steyn, MK Israel Eichler, oriana fallaci, Paul Ehrlich, Sam Harris, Sam harris The End of faith, Siavosh, Sultan Salim II, Tzipi Livni, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid
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wanderlust
The travels of Ibn Battuta. The diaries of the Wayfarer, Batuta in sum, laid out the compelling argument that Islam was more than an empire, more even than a faith, or an ideology. All apsects of human conduct were governed … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abou Zayd, Abu Zayd, Abu Zayd Maqamat, Al Wasiti, Anu Inan of Fez, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Batuta, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maqamat Al Hariri, Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan Mohammed Tughlak
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