Jignasa Journal Of History Of Ideas And Culture Part 02

Author(s): Vibha Upadhyaya and Others
Publisher: University of Rajasthan

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The outgoing description of Ibn Battuta's journey is to be seen in the light of cultural route from Africa-west Asia to India. It is a partial study of Ibn Battuta's cultural route till Delhi. His further experiences and comparative description of Indian culture with other world cultures suggest how India was exposed socially and culturally to the other world. People coming from west Asia introduced their way of life at different socio-cultural segments. Rehla exposed the global readers to the India's rich heritage and culture. References book: Ibn Battuta.
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Sultanate of Delhi, New Delhi, 1992. Sunita Zaidi,
"The Mughal State and Tribes in Seventeenth Century Sind," IESHR, vol. 26, pt.
3, 1989. Muzaffar Alam - Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
1400-1800, C.U.P., 2007. L.P. Harvey
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(134-18"centuries), Professor S.P. Gupta Memorial Lecture, Centre of Advanced
Studies in History, A M.U., 2010. Notes:
Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, Perso-Arabic sources of Information on the life and condition in the Sultanate of Delhi New Delhi, 1992
? Ala-ul Mulk, commonly known as Fasih ud-din, before coming to India was the gazi of Herat. Sultan Mohammad bin Tughluq had appointed him administrator of the city of Lahari in Sind. Ibn Battuta's Rehla, p. 9.
1.e. the sabuni which is a mixture of almonds, honey and seasame oil called after 'Sabuni - a small island off Egypt on the eastern bank of the Nile.
Le a kind of sweet. Ie, a kind of pudding introduced from Qahira. Bismillah which literally means 'in the name of God'. Modern Pakpattan, habitat of the famous saint Shaikh Farid-ud-din Ganj-i-Shakar. *Sultan Qutbud-din Mubarak Shah Khalji (1316-1320 A.D.). Sultan Iltutmish.
Literally, the house of music and enjoyment. "Lasha which in Persian literally means 'a carcase or one reduced to skin and bones' is a term of contempt.
The term duvidaviya is another form of the Persian word dawadav' which means 'running incessantly or in every direction of a messenger or anyone constantly employed in the running of errands' (Johnson)
BA'izza is the plural of 'aziz (Venerable). p. 67. 1 Strangers or foreigners.