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Abu ubaydallah albakri was a muslim scholar from cordoba, spain, who published a detailed description of the lands of western africa in 1068. Assignment 1 flashcards medieval mali, pax mongolica, and. The book of routes and realms abu ubaydallah albakri. He spent his entire life in alandalus, most of it in seville and almeria. The conceptual innovation at the heart of the book is its identification of a discourse of place, a framework for approaching formal texts devoted to the representation of territory across genres. This application is based on droidphp, made by shushant kumar, and. Abu ubayd alaziz albakri lived in the eleventh century and died in 1094. Al bakri, from the book of routes and realms, corpus of early arabic sources for west african history, levtzion and hopkins. Start studying assignment 1 flashcards medieval mali, pax mongolica, and the rise of islamic dynasties. Famous muslim historian and geographer from andalusia abu abdullah albakri mentions in his book of roads and kingdoms kitab almasalik waalmamalik that the vikings to which he refers.

Albakri crater a tangent of my research provides a visual analogy of this post my classics book club is reading the book of routes and realms by abu ubaydallah albakri and i wanted to use this blog post to orient myself. The book of routes and realms abu ubaydallah albakri ghana is a title given to their kings. It was written in 10678 in cordoba, alandalu s present day spai n. Unlike many authors of global history textbooks and readers, andrea and overfield do not rely on artificial patterns, imposed on the coincidental to create false connections between societies which in fact had little or nothing to do with one another. Abu ubaydallah albakri, the book of routes and realms. We accept pitches from freelance writers, carousers and photographers. Albakri was born in huelva, the son of the sovereign of the shortlived principality there. He died in cordoba without ever having travelled to the locations of which he wrote. The albakri crater on the moon is named after this great 11th century scholar. He collected his information from other arab historians and from andalusian arabs who had traveled to west africa. Abu ubaydallah albakri, the book of routes and realms albakri is very well know for his travels throughout the islamic world. The residences and migrations of arab tribes world digital. He was born to elite arabspeaking parents in southern iberia while it was ruled by muslims, and became a scholar who produced a geography called roads and kingdoms or, alternately translated.

It maps and describes the major trade routes of the time within the muslim world, and discusses distant trading regions such as japan, korea, and china. One of these towns, which is inhabited by muslims, is large and has twelve mosques, in one of which they assemble for the friday prayer. Routes and realms explores the ways in which muslims expressed attachment to land from the ninth through the eleventh centuries, the earliest period of intensive written production in arabic. He lived his entire life in alandalus and never visited mali. Book of roads and kingdoms ibn khordadbeh wikipedia. Book of roads and kingdoms or book of highways and kingdoms arabic. The author albakri is in many ways analogous to strabo. When did albakri write his book and what was it called. To the arabs this region was known as bilad alsudan the country of the blacks.

How islam spread into subsaharan region of west africa, and the great civilizations it established there, taking its inhabitants out of paganism to the worship of one god. Book of roads and kingdoms or book of highways and kingdoms is the name of an eleventhcentury geography text by abu abdullah albakri. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. He recorded a large amount of his travels mainly impressive parts of the empire. In the time that he was writing, mali did not yet exist as a kingdom. The residences and migrations of arab tribes world.

These excerpts come from albakri s book of routes and realms, written in 1068. The essay was written in 1067 and provides a historical context for the city of ghana, which no longer exists. Full text of icaca understanding ghana pdf see other formats spread of islam in west africa part 1 of 3. Pages 6287 contain an extract from the book of routes and realms describing west africa. Book of roads and kingdoms ibn khordadbeh, written in the late 9th century by ibn khordadbeh, an abbasid civil servant in the province of jibal. Albakri is perhaps better known for his kitab almasalik waalmamalik the book of routes and realms, one of the most important sources for the history of west africa and the sahara, including crucial information on the ghana empire circa 300. Book of roads and kingdoms, written in the early 10th century by istakhri book of roads and kingdoms albakri, written in the mid 11th century by abu abdullah albakri in spain routes and realms, a description of muslim territories by the author abulkasim ibn haukal. Albakri, the book of routes and realms introduction. When his father was deposed by almutadid he moved to cordoba, where he studied with the geographer aludri and the historian ibn hayyan. In this groundbreaking first book, zayde antrim develops a discourse of place, a framework for approaching formal texts devoted to the representation of territory across genres. The book of routes and realms abu ubaydallah albakrilocated south of the sahara desert is a broad expanse of grasslands, or savanna, that stretches across the breadth of the african continent from the atlantic ocean to the red sea.