Islam & travel in the Middle Ages

[This book] assesses both the religious and philosophical aspects of travel, as well as the economic and cultural conditions that made the rihla possible. Houari Touati tracks the compilers of the hadith who culled oral traditions linked to the prophet, the linguists and lexicologists who journeyed...

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Main Author:	Touati, Houari (Author)
Other Authors:	Cochrane, Lydia G. (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago The University of Chicago Press 2010
Subjects:	Travel > religious aspects > islam Muslim travelers > History > To 1500 Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects > Islam Travelers' writings, Arabic > Islamic Empire > History and criticism Travel, Medieval
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