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    Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

    Tim Mackintosh-Smith

    A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone

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    Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam’s Greatest Traveler

    Tim Mackintosh-Smith

    In 1325, the great Arab traveler Ibn Battutah set out from his native Tangier in North Africa on pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned nearly thirty years later…

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    Hall of a Thousand Columns

    Tim Mackintosh-Smith

    Tim Mackintosh-Smith continues in the footsteps of Moroccan traveller Ibn Battutah, revealing the rich tales of an India far off the beaten path of Taj and Raj

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    Yemen

    Tim Mackintosh-Smith

    The award-winning travel book by the author of Travels with a Tangerine

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    Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra

    Tim Mackintosh-Smith

    Tim Mackintosh-Smith concludes his travels in the footsteps of Moroccan traveller Ibn Battutah across the ‘worlds beyond the winds

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    The Travels of Ibn Battutah

    Ibn Battutah

    Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca …

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    Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

    Tim Mackintosh-Smith

    The bestselling first volume of Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s masterful journey in the footsteps of fourteenth-century traveller Ibn Battutah

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    Ahmed Mater

    Venetia Porter,Tim Mackintosh-Smith,Stephen Stapleton

    Offering a look at one of the Middle East’s most fascinating contemporary artists, this survey explores the extraordinary life and work of Saudi artist, Dr Ahmed Mater. It examines four…

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    Accounts of China and India

    Abu Zayd al-Sirafi

    The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales.

    An exceptional exemplar…

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    Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga

    Abu Zayd al-Sirafi,Ahmad ibn Fadlan

    Combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. This book offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs…

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    A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years

    'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi

    A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence…

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    A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years

    'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi

    A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence…

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