National Trust lecture: Ameena Hussein to speak on Ibn Battuta
View(s):This month’s National Trust lecture will be delivered online on Thursday, August 25 at 6 p.m. Author Ameena Hussein will speak on ‘A Shared Heritage: Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka’.
The link to join the zoom meeting is: https://zoom.us/j/91753033363?pwd=VjUvRmVIWXpnRXZMU1dlV1pTdlFJdz09
Meeting ID: 917 5303 3363
Passcode: 055365
The 14th century Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta came to the island of Sarandib or Lanka from Morocco on his way to China in 1344 to embark on a pilgrimage to Adam’s Peak. On his return to Morocco, 29 years later, he wrote about his travels in a book commonly called The Rihla. Some 700 years later, writer Ameena Hussein decided to search for traces of Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka and to document what he found and wrote about his travels in the country.
Ameena’s book Chasing Tall Tales and Mystics: Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka published in 2020 won the State Literary Prize for Humanities and was shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize.
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