Viajeros musulmanes: origen y desmitificación de creencias medievales

Authors

  • Dolors Bramon Planas Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Keywords:

voyage, pilgrimage, wonderful accounts, pilgrimage accounts, biographic dictionaries

Abstract

The activity of the maritime traffic carried out by Muslim merchants since the eighth century fostered the rise of literary genres that accounted for the expeditions and findings of these travellers: the so called «wonderful accounts». The practice of pilgrimage, on the other hand, also explains the emergence of a series of treatises which included not only mythological motives but also reliable information, such as cartographic elements. This article deals with the most relevant authors of these different accounts and gives special attention to the motive of the rukhkh bird.

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2006-01-31

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How to Cite

Bramon Planas, Dolors. 2006. “Viajeros Musulmanes: Origen Y Desmitificación de Creencias Medievales”. Cuadernos del CEMYR, no. 14 (January): 37-53. https://www.ull.es/revistas/index.php/cemyr/article/view/4113.