Ibn Battuta on the steppes and in India Carl Ernst Introduction to Islamic Civilization
Dec 31, 2015
Ibn Battuta on the steppes and in India
Carl Ernst
Introduction to Islamic Civilization
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A Mongol princess
Princess Bayulun, third wife of Ozbeg, daughter of Byzantine Emperor (169-170)
Visit to Constantinople with considerable entourage, seeing the city with a Greek guide
The shrinking importance of Byzantium
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The route to India
Crossing Transoxiana (page 174)
Cities ruined by the Mongols – Bukhara, Balkh (176)
Accumulation of horses
Meeting in Samarkand with Tarmashirin
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The Delhi Sultanate -- 1206
Mamluk military slave origins
Conquest of the “Hindu” kingdoms, who became tributaries
Spread of Indo-Persian royal culture and the concept of the Sultanate
Turkish dynasties of Khaljis (1290-1320) and Tughluqs (1320-1414)
Conquest of the Deccan plateau
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1236
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Tughluqs(1335)
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Culture of the Delhi Sultanate
Brain drain to the advantage of Delhi – Sufis and Muslim jurists
Persian as official language plus many Indian mother tongues
The riddle of Muhammad ibn Tughluq – generous king, intellectual, tyrant with failed plans and repressive policies
Shifting the capital to Daulatabad
Recruiting foreign scholars
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Meetings with Sufis
Lahari Delta in Sind (193)
Rukn al-Din in Multan (right)
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Ala’ al-Din Chishti (p. 194)
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More Sufis
Shihab al-Din “the truth-teller” (207)
Kamal al-Din Ghari and a hospice (209)
For more details see this book
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