Illumination rocks!

Posted by graml from sdn-ar-002vannewP236.dialsprint.net on February 06, 2000 at 08:44:12:

In Reply to: Hey Ulla, I hate to be a bore, but (a plug for Indy-type scholarly illumination) posted by Inbanana Jones on February 06, 2000 at 02:19:06:

: I also enjoyed reading of the Crusades. Two things that may interest you:
: 1) Check out the olde English tales of the Grail (e.g., Parsifal's quest, etc. Penguin Books has a nice edition). Lotsa lore.

: 2) Same period as the Crusades, the Arab world was engaged in a lot of sea-going trade: African giraffes to China and Chinese porcelain to East Africa. Pretty neat stuff and certainly as interesting as those battles. Check out a medieval writer named Ibn Battuta and art historian/archaeologist named Peter Garlake for more info on this neat topic...

: Blow away your teacher with your erudition....

Whoa! A fellow scholar on the Indyfan forum! I love the works of Ibn Battuta. Just as good as Marco Polo's. I just wish a journal of a Muslim trader who toured Christian Europe could be found. Do you know of one, by chance? That would be a good read. A bit off subject, I know, but so few people I know have ever even heard of Ibn Battuta that I take any chance I can get to mention him. Just my two cents.
-graml
PS Perhaps Polo was a liar, but damn! if he wasn't one hell of a good one!

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: : I also enjoyed reading of the Crusades.  Two things that may interest you:
: : 1)  Check out the olde English tales of the Grail (e.g., Parsifal's quest, etc.  Penguin Books has a nice edition).  Lotsa lore.

: : 2)  Same period as the Crusades, the Arab world was engaged in a lot of sea-going trade:  African giraffes to China and Chinese porcelain to East Africa.  Pretty neat stuff and certainly as interesting as those battles.  Check out a medieval writer named Ibn Battuta and art historian/archaeologist named Peter Garlake for more info on this neat topic...

: : Blow away your teacher with your erudition....

: Whoa!  A fellow scholar on the Indyfan forum!  I love the works of Ibn Battuta.  Just as good as Marco Polo's.  I just wish a journal of a Muslim trader who toured Christian Europe could be found.  Do you know of one, by chance?  That would be a good read.  A bit off subject, I know, but so few people I know have ever even heard of Ibn Battuta that I take any chance I can get to mention him.  Just my two cents.
: -graml
: PS  Perhaps Polo was a liar, but damn! if he wasn't one hell of a good one!

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