Ibn Battuta and the Tatar Princess

by A.R. Azzam

36 pages, Paperback

First published December 16, 1997

About the author

Dr Abdul Rahman Azzam is a graduate of Oxford University where he completed his BA and PhD in history. He is the author of RUMI AND THE KINGDOM OF JOY (Muhammadi Trust, 2000) and in 2007 Longman published his biography of Saladin to critical acclaim. The Edinburgh Evening News called it ‘a comprehensive survey not just of the man, but of the age in which he lived’, the FT Weekend described it as ‘absorbing’ and The Irish News praised the book as ‘timely and well-written'. SALADIN was a bestseller when published in Arabic and was selected in Jordan as one of the top one hundred books on Islam. THE OTHER EXILE, about the St Helena Island hermit, Fernão Lopes, a real-life Robinson Crusoe, was published in May 2017, and he is working on THE RETURN OF SEBASTIAN.

Reviews

[Ali]

A beautifully illustrated story of the great Moroccan traveller's adventures in Turkey, alongside a Tatar princess. This would be a great book to read to lower Key Stage 2, to have in your book corner, or to use as curriculum support in History, non-European study. It will be particularly valuable in schools with a large number of Turkish and North African children.