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IBN-BATTUTA, TRAVEL GEOGRAPHY, KARST AND THE SACRED UNDERGROUND

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posted on 2018-12-26, 05:52 authored by Luiz Eduardo Panisset Travassos, Oswaldo Bueno Amorim Filho

Abstract This study is intended to address, under a new approach, the contributions of Ibn-Battuta to the development of certain areas of geography, especially the anthropogenic use of karst as well as the cultural use of caves. Noteworthy to mention is that, most likely, the geographers from medieval Islam were a kind of missing “bridge” in the evolution of geographical thought among the ancient Greeks and the precursors of the great European classical schools in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thus, this article presents an alternative approach to the work of Ibn-Battuta not only for the study of travel literature but also to the study of karstology.

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