Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages, by Houari Touati

Houari Touati, Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages, Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane, University of Chicago Press, 2010. In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North Africa, and seeing parts of Europe—they also established both philosophical and geographic boundaries between the faithful and th..