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Trade Winds
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Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows in the footsteps of scholar and traveller, Ibn Battutah. He explores the place of Islam in Hindu-dominated India and communist China.
In an effort to change the West's monolithic view of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows in the footsteps of 14th Century Moroccan scholar Ibn Battutah, who covered 75,000 miles, 40 countries and three continents in a 30-year odyssey. He explores the place of Islam in Hindu-dominated India and communist China, and tells the story of the Islamic trade empire of the 14th century. In Cina, he meets a clan who trace their ancestry back to Arabs, and witnesses an illegal Arabic lesson.
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Wed 6 Aug 2008
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