Source Material
The source material consulted was Ross E. Dunn’s The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century (University of California Press, 2012). All quotations in the Story Map come from this work.
Data
Through close reading of Ross E. Dunn’s book, I created a dataset of every single location that Ibn Battuta mentioned traveling to in the Rihla. This dataset was bolstered with relevant coordinates and date visited, in order to create a map demonstrating the trajectory of Ibn Battuta’s journey.
A similar, smaller, dataset was used to create the map of his wives and children, taking note of any mention of wives or children in the Rihla. These were compiled through close reading of the source material.
To craft a narrative, important locations highlighted by Ibn Battuta were chosen to create a list for the StoryMap, including helpful quotations for each location. This was determined through close reading of the book.
Tools
CARTO was used to create the map of Ibn Battuta’s complete journey, as well as the map of his wives and children.
StoryMaps JS was used to create the story map found on the ‘Mapping Ibn Battuta’s Travels’ page.