Medievalists.net » Ibn Jubayr http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Ibn Jubayr: The Rihla http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/ibn-jubayr-the-rihla/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/ibn-jubayr-the-rihla/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 21:24:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42241 Abu ‘l-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Jubayr (1145-1217) was not an exceptional man. As a relatively ordinary, middle-aged Muslim, Ibn Jubayr was neither the first nor the last to leave Al-Andalus to perform the hajj. Admiring kings only from afar, the closest that Ibn Jubayr came to royalty were encounters with imperial tax collectors. Paradoxically though, it is precisely Ibn Jubayr’s lack of distinction that helped earn him repute throughout the Islamic world in his time. It also makes him the ideal subject of the present study.

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