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IBN BATTUTA
1304 - 1377
Moorish Traveller
Ibn Battuta was the greatest medieval Arab traveller and author of one of the most famous travel books in history, the 'Rihlah'.

Ibn Battuta lived for a time in Mecca and Medina, visited the last Mongol Khan of Iran and the Khan of the Golden Horde in Russia. He served for several years as a judge in Delhi.

His many voyages, covering over 70 000 miles, brought him to China, Sumatra, Ceylon, Arabia, Syria, Egypt, East Africa and Timbuktu. Accounts of those visits were recorded in the 'Rihlah'.





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I am unable to read Turkish, so I disqualify

For Pete's sake, can we not try ending this foolish quarrel and go on with a new topic.

Kindly clarify what Deli's Turkish sentences were about, fair enough:

Atatürk, tarihi ve sosyal zaruretlerle dile girmiş ve zamanla Türkçeleşmiş bulunun kelimeler de dahil olmak üzere, bütün yabancı kelimeleri dilden atma şeklindeki 'tasfiyecilik' hareketnin önünü daha kendi sağlılığında tıkamış iken, aşırı özleştirmecilik dilde ırkçılık demek olan bu harekete dört elle sarılmıştır.

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Dilde devrimcilik ve ilercilik anlayışı ile, dil çalışmaları politize edildiği, dil davası asıl gayesinden uzaklaştırılmaya çalışıldıüı için, bu durum dil inkilabının temel felsefesi ile taban tabana zıtlaşmıştır

who in God's name would make such accusations?

I call this arguing for arguing sake.

why, Alpha, what is she saying?

A traveler-historian in the tradition of Ibn Battuta, Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Jubayr, Leo was a man of many talents, occupations and adventures. He was, at various times, a diplomat, jurist, hospital administrator, geographer, teacher, political prisoner and international celebrity. In the course of his travels from Timbuktu to Istanbul, he survived Atlas mountain blizzards and Nile crocodile attacks only to be kidnapped by pirates and presented to Pope Leo x in Rome, where he ostensibly converted to Christianity.

Leo is considered the last of the great Muslim intellectuals to pass along Islmaic learning to the pre-renaissance west.
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200801/a.man.of.two.worlds.htm

Antoine Galland was an unlikely Scheherazade. Born in 1646, he studied to be a classical scholar, and from 1670 to 1675 served as an interpreter for the French diplomatic mission in Constantinople. There, he studied Turkish, modern Greek, Arabic and Persian.

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200801/the.hakawati.of.paris.htm

Kemer and Cirali, Turkey
Tourism retains a strong allure, especially among the region's poorer nations, which look to the industry to spur growth. Turkey's tourist boom, for example, was driven largely by government incentives.



Kemer and Cirali, Turkey - On this strip of Mediterranean coast, two Turkish villages illustrate completely different paths to tourism development.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0117/p12s02-woeu.html