Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354

Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-398

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203340448     Document Type: Book

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1. " It is noteworthy that our traveller says not a word of the temples of Luxor, although the tomb of Abu'l-Hajjáj (a famous saint who died here in 1244) is actually in the precincts of the temple of Ammon.
2. The present walls were built by the Ottoman sultan Snlayman " the Magnificent" (i 520-1566).
3. " A village close to Zahla, formerly reputed to possess the tomb of Noah. Until the middle of the fourteenth century the floor of the Biqi' (Coele-Syria) was covered by a lake or marsh at this point, and there was a tradition that the Ark came to rest on the spur of An jar on the opposite side to and S.E. of Zahla.
4. " Tizln is situated 28 miles W. of Aleppo. In 1268. See his letter to Boemund describing the sack of the city, in Yule's Marco Polo (3rd ed., ed. Cordier), i. 24 note.
5. " On Ibn Taymiya, who died in 1328, see Introd., p. 38. His name is now held in great respect as the forerunner of the Wahhibf and other modern reform movements in Islam.
6. " The word qaysariya is defined variously as a public place in which the market is held " or " a square building containing chambers, storerooms, and stalls for merchants.".
7. called Hofuf, will be found in the Geog. Journal, 63 (1924), pp.
8. This refers to the capture of Smyrna in 1344 (many years after Ibn Battuta's visit) by a crusading force, with the assistance of the Knights of St. John.
9. see H. A. Gibbons, Foundations of the Ottoman Empire 46-8. With regard to the name 'Othman Chuk, given to 'Othman, Prof. Kramers has suggested that it was derived not direcUy from the Arabic name 'Othrnin, but from the fortress of Osmanjik on the Kizil Armak (Z.DJI.G., 81, LXII f.).
10. Muslims hold the ringing of bells in the greatest abhorrence, and attribute to the Prophet the saying: " The angels will not enter any house wherein bells are rung." I take this to be the estuary of the Miuss river, weft of Taganrog.
11. F. Balodis, in Latvijas Unfoersitates RakHi {ASa Univmitath Latvi-ensts, XIII (Riga, 1926), pp. 3-82.
12. Adam's Peak, venerated by the Muslims as the imprint of Adam's foot, was equally venerated by the Brahmans and the Buddhifu, as the mark of Siva'S and Buddha's foot respectively.
13. G. Ferrand, in Textes árabes, etc., relatifs á ¡'Ex/rime-Oríeifíft. II (París, 1914), pp. 436-455.
14. " Tayálisl's " port (Cút&aj, IV, 157-60 j Mareo Pe/o, II, 465
15. G. Ferrand, Textes relatifs a /" Extríme-Orient, 431-3)
16. Peking, called by the Mongols Kluin-Baliq, "City of the Kluin," the Cambalu and Cambuluc of Western writers. The name Khariqu has been explained as an adjeaive, "(City) of the Kluin" (Journal asiatique, May 1913, p. 701).
17. The locality preserves to this day its Arabic name, corrupted into Dinamar or Adinamar. It is a pleasant and much frequented spot close to Granada " (Pa$cual de Gayangos, Htilery of the Muham-made Dynaflies in Spain, I, 349).
18. Mull was in all probability the district later called Mori, on the left bank of the Niger about Niamey, the opposite bank being occupied by the Qumburi (perhaps Ibn Battuta's ganburnl).