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Ibn Battuta on the steppes and in India

Ibn Battuta on the steppes and in India. Carl Ernst Introduction to Islamic Civilization. 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

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Ibn Battuta on the steppes and in India

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  1. Ibn Battuta on the steppes and in India Carl Ernst Introduction to Islamic Civilization

  2. 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

  3. The route to India Crossing Transoxiana (page 174) Cities ruined by the Mongols – Bukhara, Balkh (176) Accumulation of horses Meeting in Samarkand with Tarmashirin

  4. 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

  5. 1236

  6. Tughluqs(1335)

  7. 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

  8. Meetings with Sufis Lahari Delta in Sind (193) Rukn al-Din in Multan (right)

  9. Ala’ al-Din Chishti (p. 194)

  10. 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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