Human beings traveled to distant areas in search of new countries and meeting new people.
Who is your most favorite explorer through out the history and why?
Do you think that any of such explorer had a major impact on the history of the world?
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I have heard a lot about these travellers. Would love to read their accounts especially of their travels to our part of the world. Maybe ibn e batuta for me.
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Some travelers like Marco Polo remained controversial due to some controversies that they never visited those areas for which they wrote in their travelogues.
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Who was Ibn e Batuta?
So who was Ibn-e-Batuta? – The Express Tribune
The other day my son, a class five student in one of the most sought-after schools in Karachi, came to me for help in a school project. Having read on several parenting websites that I should be participating in my son’s scholastic life, I eagerly agreed. The project was on famous explorers, and given that I’m my nuclear family’s resident amateur historian, my interest was piqued. He obediently rattled off the list of the explorers he had to pick from: Marco Polo, Vasco da Gama, Magellan and so on. “What about Ibn-e-Batuta?” I asked “Who?” he replied. “Ibn-e-Batuta,” I pressed on. “You know, the guy who actually covered more ground than Marco polo? That Ibn-e-Batuta. He also happened to be a Berber and a Muslim.”
“Oh”, he said, probably ruing the moment he asked for my help, ‘no, he’s not on the list.’
Since then, I related this story to a few people, and the most common response was: Ibn-e-Batuta? Isn’t that the mall in Dubai?** A couple of my more Bollywood inclined friends remembered his name as the title for a song in the Naseeruddin Shah movie Ishqiya.
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Ironically, if you Googled anything at all a few weeks back, you’d have seen that even Google, that infamous tool of Zionist oppression, celebrated his 707th birthday with a doodle commemorating his travels. And why not? After all, this is a man who went all the way from Morocco in the West to China in the East. He travelled to the Byzantine Empire, Spain and the steppes of the golden horde in the north to Somalia in the south.** He even got to Sindh, where he famously encountered a rhino before getting as far as Chittagong.** That effectively means that he covered more ground than anyone else until the invention of the steam engine, some 450 years later. Sadly, if you went to one of Pakistan’s elite schools, chances are you’ve never even heard of him. Worse, you may have grown up thinking that everything of value in human history came from Europe. Except for paper of course; that’s Chinese.
I don’t blame my son, or any of the similarly schooled people I spoke to. I went to the same school and, by the time I finished my O-levels, I could have told you how many wives Henry VIII had, and what Marie Antoinette’s famous (almost) last words were, but I couldn’t have told you who Timurlane was (is that the next street over from Park Lane?), and I certainly couldn’t tell a Khwarezm-shah from a Shahenshah (you know, the Amitabh movie where he has his arm wrapped in chain mail). I knew Machiavelli and Napoleon, but not Kautiliya and Sun Tzu.
I don’t even blame the schools. The only usable and attractive textbooks are understandably Anglo-centric. The East appears on the periphery, and when it does, it is always through the eyes of the discoverers. All of whom are, of course, dead white males. Our poor little subcontinent appears as a footnote in the conquests of Alexander, or as the land the search for which inadvertently lead to the decimation of the Native Americans.
It wasn’t until the advent of Pakistan Studies that this part of the world made a poorly-written, and even more poorly-edited, appearance. **We met the whitewashed and utterly neutered versions of Muhammad Bin Qasim (who, by the way, was absolutely not tortured to death by the Caliph) and Mahmud of Ghazni (who was absolutely not in it for the loot).
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So am I asking for our current textbooks to be dumped and replaced with texts that only focus on ‘our’ versions of history? No. I’m not asking for the glorification of some mythical golden age, but just the realisation that history does not end where Russia begins. I don’t expect writers to suddenly churn out attractive textbooks in which ‘we’ get whole chapters and not single paragraphs, and I don’t expect already overburdened teachers to take it upon themselves to write their own course material. Instead, how about we take it on ourselves? How about we actually take the time to research and learn about the ‘rest’ of the world and maybe even teach it to our kids? Trust me, they’ll thank us for it. Eventually.
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You can down load safarnama ibn batoota from here
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Marco Polo never went to China :hayaa:
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Marco Polo, one of history’s greatest explorers, may in fact have been a conman, it was claimed on Tuesday, Daily Mail online reports.
Far from being a trader who spent years in China and the Far East, he probably never went further east than the Black Sea, according to a team of archaeologists. They suspect the Venetian adventurer picked up stories about the mysterious lands of the Orient from fellow traders around the Black Sea who related tales of China, Japan and the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.
He then put the stories together in a book, which purports to be his account of his travels between 1271 and 1291. It details his relations with Kublai Khan, the Mongol ruler.** But now an Italian team of archaeologists studying in Japan have cast doubts about one of their country’s national heroes - although there have been competing claims to him from Croatia, which argues he was born there.**
Following the research, Professor Daniele Petrella of the University of Naples told Italian history magazine Focus Storia there were many inconsistencies and inaccuracies in Marco Polo’s description of Kublai Khan’s invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281. ‘He confuses the two, mixing up details about the first expedition with those of the second,’ Professor Petrella said.
‘In his account of the first invasion, he describes the fleet leaving Korea and being hit by a typhoon before it reached the Japanese coast,’ said Professor Daniele Petrella of the University of Naples, the leader of the archaeology team.
‘But that happened in 1281 – is it really possible that a supposed eye witness could confuse events which were seven years apart?’ Polo’s description of the Mongol fleet did not square with the remains of ships the archaeologists excavated in Japan, as he had written of ships with five masts, while those which had been found had only three. ‘It was during our dig that doubts began to emerge about much of what he wrote,’ added Professor Petrella. ‘When he describes Kublai Khan’s fleet he talks about the pitch that was used to make ships’ hulls watertight. He used the word ‘chunam’, which in Chinese and Mongol means nothing. ‘In fact, it is the Persian word for pitch. It’s also odd that instead of using, as he does in most instances, local names to describe places, he used Persian terms for Mongol and Chinese place names.’ daily times monitor
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Mustansar Hussain Tarrar
I just love his safarnamas I have got around 10 of his safarnamas and i love them
I have the previlege to meet him too he is such a humble and a nice man
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we have ibn batuta mall here in Dubai, which is build according to batuta journey all its interior is made so beautifull and it gives the effect of tht place.
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Mustansar Hussain Tarrar
I just love his safarnamas I have got around 10 of his safarnamas and i love them
I have the previlege to meet him too he is such a humble and a nice man
Do you think what he writes in his travelogues in 100% true. especially goris getting impressed from him
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we have ibn batuta mall here in Dubai, which is build according to batuta journey all its interior is made so beautifull and it gives the effect of tht place.
Which countries they have portrayed there?
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Do you think what he writes in his travelogues in 100% true. especially goris getting impressed from him
No everything is not right what he has written and he has wrote it in Yaak Saraye safarnama that a writer exaggerated the whole story if he writes the same scenery he has seen with his eyes then there is no need for me to write a travelouge
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No everything is not right what he has written and he has wrote it in Yaak Saraye safarnama that a writer exaggerated the whole story if he writes the same scenery he has seen with his eyes then there is no need for me to write a travelouge
There is a difference between a common man seeing and conveying things and a writer like TaraR
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Which countries they have portrayed there?
there are actually different courts or sections you can say the mall starts with china then move to india then Persia then egypt then Tunisia then Andalusia
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there are actually different courts or sections you can say the mall starts with china then move to india then Persia then egypt then Tunisia then Andalusia
why Andalusia is bold. Did they give more space to it
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Lolz nice mujhe se ghalti se click ho Gaya bold while typing
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