1. Carl Ernst Introduction to Islamic Civilization
Ibn Battuta part 3
Carl Ernst
Introduction to Islamic Civilization

2. Places
Jidda, Zabid, San’a, Aden, Mogadishu, Mombasa, Kilwa , Zafar

3. Turkish Lands

4. Topics and events
Kurdish and Turkish invasion of Yemen, visits by Indian, Ceylonese, and Chinese ambassadors (112-3)
Transition from Irano-Semitic heartland to Indian ocean: Islamic cosmopolitanism (116-7)
Zeila (122): unpleasant smell of fresh fish and slaughtered camels
Port of Mogadishu, Somali and Swahili languages

5. More topics and events
Sharifs and sayyids: aristocratic status of descendents of the Prophet (125)
Gold trade and indoor plumbing (127)
Need for a Persian speaking guide (137)
Europeans in Latakia (139), Crimea (159, 162)
Turks, Turkomans, Mongols – Ilkhan vassals, population changes
Franks in Constantinople,
Seven kings of the world (160)

6. Even more topics and events
Byzantine architecture and the Turks
Konya and the brain drain (Rumi)
Akhi fraternal groups (145), futuwwa
The skill of flattery (149), rewards (153-4)
From ghazis to civilized princes (151)
Drowning (154)
Kipchaks (Golden Horde), Crim (159)
Christianize edition of Mongols (162)

7. Betel and areca nuts (124, 128): “paan” and the Indian ocean

8. Muzaffariyya Mosque, Taizz, Yemen (115). ArchNet

9. Aden (119). Center for Arabic Language and Eastern Studies photo

10. Husuni Kubwa palace, Kilwa

11. Fort of Nizwa, Oman (or Nazwa,131; Ibadi imams temporarily out of power) ArchNet

12. Konya, ca ArchNet

13. Konya: Mevlana Museum ArchNet

14. More Sufis Jidda 112 – prayers and worship
Zabid (Yemen) 114 – storytelling about saint who debated Zaydi Shi`is
Kuria Muria Islands near Oman (129)
Khunj, Persia (131)
Mudurnu, Anatolia (155) – hospice
Al-Qiram or Crimea (164) -- hospice

15. Kuria Muria islands (Oman)