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Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia.For the class...

A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR "Masterly and brilliant"—Simon Sebag Montefiore "A book of vast scope and stunning insight."—Anthony Sattin...

All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn B...

Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited mo...