Essay about Ibn Battuta

“Ibn Battuta’s stories give us a picture of Africa through eyes of a devote Muslim traveling all over the continent of Africa and the world. In his accounts sub-Saharan Africa is described prior to colonialism and racism. Ibn Battuta’s stories as they are transcribed in “Ibn Battuta, In Black Africa” by Said Hamdun and Noel King are representative of the only written account of this period and give us the most realistic and accurate account of this time in history.

According to Document 6, a description written in “Travels to Kingdoms” describes Ibn Battuta’s travels to Mali in 1352. Not only was Ibn Battuta describing what happened at Mali, but as well impressed with the justice and security enjoyed by all of the people of Mali. The description states, “They… have a greater hatred of injustice than any other people…shows no mercy to anyone who is guilty of he least act of it. There is complete security in their country. Neither traveler not inhabitants in it has anything to fear from robbers.” This description explains that the people of Mali didn't tolerate injustice towards anyone and they wouldn't show any mercy to anyone, doesn't natter who they were. In the textbook “World Civilizations The Global Experience,” by Peter N. Stearns, Ibn Battuta reported,"Of all peoples, the Blacks are those who most hate injustice, and their emperor pardons none who is guilty of it.” I Moving past the accomplishments of safety in Africa’s civilizations, it also can be said that Africans had great generosity with others. In Document 4, it is explained that when Mansa Musa was on his haj to Mecca, he stopped in Cairo, Egypt and an Egyptian official described him as a

Booker T Washington was one of the best advocates in his time. Growing up in slavery and out coming the horrifying struggles of the 1870’s was a great effort. Born in the era were black people were like flies he found a determination to succeed and discovered many powers in life.

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome” –Booker T. Washing. Booker Taliaferro Washington was born in Hale’s Ford, Virginia on April 5th, 1856 to Jane Burroughs and an unknown White man. Washington was married three times. His first wife was Fannie N. Smith from Malden, West Virginia. Booker and Fannie were married in the summer of 1882 and had one child together named Portia M. Washington. Fannie died two years later in May 1884. The second wife was Olivia A. Davidson in 1885. Olivia was a teacher in Mississippi and Tennessee. She then worked as a school teacher in Tuskegee and that is how she met Booker T. she was an assistant principal. Olivia and

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Battuta disapproves of several instances of male-female companionship he witnesses throughout his journey. First, he visits the qādī, or judge of Īwālātan. He sees the qādī with a young and beautiful woman who is not his wife. The qādī attempts to appease the stricken Battuta, “Why are you retreating? She is only my companion” (Battuta, p. 38). Battuta responds,“ I was astonished at their conduct—for he was from the faqīh (expert in Islamic law) class and had performed the pilgrimage” (Battuta, p. 38).

From the 1500s to the 1700s, African blacks, mainly from the area of West Africa (today's Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Dahomey, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon) were shipped as slaves to North America, Brazil, and the West Indies. For them, local and tribal differences, and even varying cultural backgrounds, soon melded into one common concern for the suffering they all endured. Music, songs, and dances as well as remembered traditional food, helped not only to uplift them but also quite unintentionally added immeasurably to the culture around them. In the approximately 300 years that blacks have made their homes in North America, the West Indies, and Brazil, their highly honed art

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During the progressive era in the late 1800’s, white people were in control of society. The blacks had been freed under the Emancipation Proclamation, but were not being treated equal. Mainly because they were black. But that was not the only reason. Blacks were also not treated equally because they did not possess the intelligence and skills of whites. A great man decided to fight for equality between blacks and whites. His name was Booker Taliaferro Washington.

Booker Taliaferro Washington was the foremost black educator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also had a major influence on southern race relations and was the dominant figure in black public affairs from 1895 until his death in 1915. Born a slave on a small farm in the Virginia backcountry, he moved with his family after emancipation to work in the salt furnaces and coal mines of West Virginia. After a secondary education at Hampton Institute, he taught an upgraded school and experimented briefly with the study of law and the ministry, but a teaching position at Hampton decided his future career. In 1881 he founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute on the Hampton model in

The historical novel Segu by Maryse Condé is set in the African country of Segu during a time of great cultural change. The African Slave Trade, the spread of Islam, and personal identity challenges were all tremendous and far-reaching issues facing Africa from the late 1700s to early 1800s. Condé uses the four brothers of the Traore family, Tiekoro, Malobali, Siga, and Naba, to demonstrate the impact that the issues of Islam, slave trade, and identity had on African people through the development of each character. The oldest of the sons, Tiekoro exemplifies the influence and spread of Islam through out Africa at the time.

A desert peninsula in 6th century was the cross roads of the world, the bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa. Arabia was a vacant wasteland of desert, rarely seeing any life besides that of the trade caravans. City states dominated the political life and the only form of centralized government was in chaos. This was Arabia in the 6th century, this even though Christian was to become the staging ground for the growth of the 2nd largest religion that exists today. This is where the "Prophet" Muhammad was born in the city of Mecca.

Booker T. Washington was one of the most well-known African American educators of all time. Lessons from his life recordings and novelistic writings are still being talked and learned about today. His ideas of the accommodation of the Negro people and the instillation of a good work ethic into every student are opposed, though, by some well-known critics of both past and current times. They state their cases by claiming the Negro’s should not have stayed quiet and worked their way to wear they did, they should have demanded equal treatment from the southern whites and claimed what was previously promised to them. Also, they state that Washington did not really care about equality or respect, but about a status boost in his own life. Both

The book I chose to read for this summer assignment was The Adventures of Ibn Battuta (Revised edition) written by Ross E. Dunn. The predominant reason as to why I chose this book is because I am Moroccan descent and I had a strong desire to learn more about the rich cultures of the Arab world. I once read that those who had the last name Bencomo, which was orginally from the Canary Islands and written as Tehncomo were descendents of the Islamic traveler, Ibn Battuta. This sparked even more curiosity to learn about my ancestor’s history. I heard stories from my grandmother about the Moors since her father was half Moroccan. I knew I had to learn about this since this is a part of who I am.

In this time of climbing woman 's rights and concentrate on fairness and human rights, it is diffuclt to absorb Hindi practice of sati, the blazing to death of a widow on her spouse 's memorial service fire, into our cutting edge world. For sure, the practice is banned and illicit in today 's India, yet it happens up to the present regardless is viewed by a few Hindus as a definitive type of womanly commitment and reparation. It has been polished in India since at any rate the fourth century B.c.e. when it was initially recorded in Greek accounts. It was banned by British pilgrim law in 1829–1830 and made due in the local Indian states until the late 1880s, when it was successfully annihilated, despite the fact that amazingly uncommon cases persevered into the early twentieth century. Since India 's freedom in 1947—or all the more accurately since 1943—there has been an astounding restoration of the wonder in four Northern Indian states: Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and particularly Rajasthan.