Travel Literature Of The Arabs

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Travel Literature Travel literature is travel writing aspiring to literary value. Travel literature is a record of the experiences of an author touring a place for the desire of travel. Travel literature may be cross-cultural or transnational in application, or may involve travel to different regions within the same country. Some Early examples of travel literature include Pausanias' Description of Greece in the 2nd century CE, and the travelogues of Ibn Jubayr (1145–1214) and Ibn Batutta (1304–1377), both of whom recorded their travels across the known world in detail. The travel type was a fairly common type in medieval Arabic literature. In the 18th century, travel literature was commonly known as the book of travels, which mainly consisted of maritime diaries. Foreign travel has always attracted outstanding men of every nationality. Many travellers from Europe and America travelled as far away to France Russia and the lower countries establishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland. Just as far ranging during the 8th to 14th centuries were the Arabs. Their Muslim religion required them to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca and this, and their merchant skill, made them into first-rate travellers. Arab communities flourished as far apart as the Sudan on the southern edge of the Sahara, in Samarkand in Central Asia and in South China. Arab sea captains in their dhows traded regularly between East Africa and India, and a man like Ibn Batuta could find Arab hospitality and speak Arabic with his countrymen across the width of the known world. Arabic travel literature emerged in the 5th century with only fragments of the written language appearing before then. The Qur'an, widely regarded as the finest piece of literature work in the Arabic language, has the greatest lasting effect on Arabic culture and its literature. Arabic travel

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