The significance of the translation and publication of the work “travelogue” in the study of the legacy of ibn Battuta

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This article is about the work of Ibn Battuta, a Abdunabiev Sunnat Botirovich. (2025). The significance of the translation famous Arab traveler, geographer and ethnographer and publication of the work “travelogue” in the study of the legacy of ibn who lived in the 14th century, and that this work has Battuta. The American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations, 7(02), 120–124. https://doi.org/10.37547/tajssei/Volume07Issue02-12 been translated into different languages of the world. There is ample information that researchers and COPYRIGHT orientalists have translated this work from the original © 2025 Original content from this work may be used under the terms source into their languages and published it in various of the creative commons attributes 4.0 License. journals and publications. In particular, it should be noted that the work “Travelogue” has been translated into the Uzbek language. Keywords: Library Got, journal Asiatic, ta’lif, Russian vestnik, Rihlat Ibn Battuta, Journey of the great world. Introduction: Ibn Battuta is a renowned Arab traveler who holds a distinguished place among medieval Arab geographers such as Ibn Khordadbeh, Al-Ya’qubi, Al- Istakhri, Al-Muqaddasi, Al-Mas’udi, and Ibn Hawqal, as well as travelers like Abu Hamid al-Gharnati, Ibn Fadlan, and Ibn Jubayr, due to his famous “Travelogue.” Academic scholar I. Yu. Krachkovsky recognized Ibn Battuta as “the last and greatest traveler who journeyed across all Muslim countries.” Biographical information about Ibn Battuta himself is limited. Despite his widespread fame, only two brief references about him can be found in Arab historical sources: one in Ibn Khaldun’s famous “Muqaddimah” and the other in the biographical dictionary of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. Al-Asqalani, in discussing Ibn Battuta, mentions that he relied on information from Ibn al- Khatib (d. 1374) and Ibn Marzuq (d. 1448), who were Ibn Battuta’s contemporaries. Nevertheless, it must be emphasized that the primary source of information The American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations 120 https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajssei The American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations about Ibn Battuta’s life and personality remains his University. own work, the “Travelogue.” The English orientalist Samuel Lee translates al-Bayluni’s METHODS full text into English, entitled “Excerpts from the Travels of Ibn Battuta”. But his translations were not exact and Historical and cultural (providing information about in places were a free description of the original. each subject), comparative (data comparison), and systematic analysis (theoretical analysis of The first complete translation of the travelogue was information). made in Lisbon in 1840. The Portuguese priest A. Moura, while in Fes in 1790, found the manuscript of the Main body travelogue and decided to translate it into Portuguese. Ibn Battuta’s work “Travelogue” did not fail to interest The first volume of Moura’s translation was published in world scholars with its interesting and rare 1840 by the Lisbon Academy Press. It contained information. At the end of the 17th century, impressions of Ibn Battuta’s travels through Egypt, Syria, Muhammad ibn Fathullah ibn Muhammad al-Bayluni Yemen, Mecca, Asia Minor and the Golden Horde. published a travelogue entitled “al-Muntaqi min rihlat However, due to Moura’s death, this work was not ibn Battuta al-Tanji al-Andalusi” (“Excerpts from the completed. Rihla of Ibn Battuta al-Tanji al-Andalusi”) with the Portions of the travelogue, translated into French from intention of adapting it to the taste of a wide the original text by Baron de Slane, were published in readership and making it popular. After the publication the Asiatic Journal in 1843. Slane also included in this of Al-Bayluni's “Fragments”, the full text of the edition notes sent to Reynaud in a personal letter about “Journey” remained virtually unwritten. Most of the the translation. copies of the “Travelogue” that have come down to us are not the originals, but consist of Al-Bayluni’s In 1848, the French Arabist Édouard Leuge-Dulaurier “Fragments”. republished in the same Asian Journal the text and translations of the chapters about the journey, European orientalists recognized Ibn Battuta from this dedicated to the Malay Islands and the journey of copy of al-Bayluni. In 1808, the German traveler Tavalisi. This publication was written by the French Zettsen first drew attention to the travelogue. [1, 24 ] orientalist Ch. Defremery was intrigued, and he He bought the manuscript for the Gothic Library. On translated the chapters describing his travels in Iran and the basis of this manuscript copy of the “Fragment” of Central Asia from the complete manuscript into French 1818, J.G. Kosegarten published a special study, and published them in 1848. Two years later, the translated and published into Latin the text of the “Narrative of a Journey to the Crimea and Kipchak”, “T