May 7 10,000 days 10,000 days 10,000 days right in two 10,000 maniacs 10,000 maniacs. Rouds of arabia archaeolgy and history of the kindom of. Abu ubaydallah albakri, the book of routes and realms albakri is very well know for his travels throughout the islamic world. Many of them were already in existence at the beginning of the common era ce, and some can be traced back to the third millennium bce. Read how they rebuilt the ancient egyptian model system in africa. He spent his entire life in alandalus, most of it in seville and almeria. Book of roads and kingdoms or book of highways and kingdoms arabic. He was born to elite arabspeaking parents in southern iberia while it was ruled by muslims, and became a scholar who produced a geography called roads and kingdoms or, alternately translated. Albakri crater a tangent of my research provides a visual analogy of this post my classics book club is reading the book of routes and realms by abu ubaydallah albakri and i wanted to use this blog post to orient myself. Egypt was connected with the lands to the south by three main routes. Pages 6287 contain an extract from the book of routes and realms describing west africa. Routes and realms explores the ways in which muslims expressed attachment to land from the ninth through the eleventh centuries, the earliest period of intensive written production in arabic.
Albakri based his work on the accounts of traders, the writings of muhammad ibn yusuf alwarraq. Albakri, the book of routes and realms introduction. The book of routes and realms abu ubaydallah albakri ghana is a title given to their kings. He lived his entire life in alandalus and never visited mali. Read about the forgotten ancient egyptians, who fled the foreign invasion and religious oppression. Below is a quote from the famous al bakris work, kitab almasalik walmamalik, the book of routes and realms. Rouds of arabia archaeolgy and history of the kindom of saudi. Albakri, roads and kingdoms 1067 ce the author albakri is in many ways analogous to strabo. Understand the genius of the ancient egyptianafrican religious, social, political, and. The trade routes of this region are the oldest in africa. It was written in 10678 in cordoba, alandalu s present day spain. I put this quote here just to give an idea how powerful the kingdoms of west africa sudan were. Moorish paradigm book 6 rna gene free 30day trial scribd. The book of routes and realms abu ubaydallah albakrilocated south of the sahara desert is a broad expanse of grasslands, or savanna, that stretches across the breadth of the african continent from the atlantic ocean to the red sea.