source:time maazine.com
Although he did not know it at the time, when a jurist from Tangier named Ibn Battuta left his home in 1325, he was commencing 29 years of travel, visiting everywhere from the Sahara to the China coast. Yet wherever he went, Ibn Battuta found one constant: the shared culture and faith of Islam, which knit together a community around the world long before anyone had thought of the word globalization. With the Arab Spring still playing itself out and with the Islamic world steeped in both change and challenge, Ibn Battuta’s travels seemed the perfect topic for our annual Summer Journey double issue. We wanted to see how the world had — and had not — changed in the years since he traversed it.
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