2019-10-01 BBC World Histories Magazine
CULTURE The Conversation Matt Elton: For people who missed the first season of As Others See Us, can you explain what the series ...
Æ they think about Britain. But what also emerges is that people from all around the world are very surprised by the extent to w ...
CULTURE The Conversation GE TT Y^ I MA GE S “In Spain, Britain’s constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy were seen a ...
GE TT Y^ I MA GE S The feeling there is that referendums require very careful thinking and planning. So, rather fascinatingly, t ...
CULTURE Agenda TH E^ M ET RO PO LIT AIN M US EU M^ OF AR T Agenda EXHIBITIONS, TV, FILMS AND MORE CULTURE Agenda ...
Æ This print of two women being menaced by Death and the Devil – quite the double-act – was made from a 1520s etching by German ...
EASTERN PROMISE For centuries, the Islamic world had a huge impact on the culture of the west: on images, decorative art, clothi ...
WORDS MATT ELTON 85 A History of Islam in 21 Women by Hossein Kamaly Oneworld, September This collection of biographies offers a ...
Justin Marozzi traces three decades of travels by the unparalleled 14th-century wanderer across the Dar al-Islam – the vast Musl ...
AW L^ I MA GE S Camels traverse the Sahara Desert in north Africa. In 1325, the young Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta set out east ...
JOURNEYS In the footsteps of Ibn Battuta’s journeys across Africa and Asia n a piercingly clear day in June 1325, a 21-year-old ...
Æ AL AM Y/A WL IM AG ES /^ A ND RE W^ MC CO NN EL L– RO BE RT HA RD IN G Women browse a spice stall in the souks of Cairo’s Khan ...
JOURNEYS In the footsteps of Ibn Battuta’s journeys across Africa and Asia 13 or 14 June 1325 The 21-year-old Ibn Battuta sets o ...
91 Æ ILLUSTRATION BY THERESA GRIEBEN 132 7 Having been invited in November 1326 to join a caravan heading north, Ibn Battuta tra ...
he found men “wearing no covering. This appeared a shocking thing to me, and I went to the governor and informed him of it.” Sai ...
Æ AW L^ I MA GE S/ LE E^ F RO ST R OB ER T^ H AR DI NG /A LA MY The ninth-century al- Qar awiy yin mosque in Fez , the great i ...
AL AM Y Sailing across the Black Sea to the Crimea, Ibn Battuta ventured up the Volga, then travelled south through the Balkans. ...
Justin Marozzi is a historian and travel writer, and the author of Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization (A ...
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