Feudal world history

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• The retrospective history of the world

[The term feudal refers here to a system in which political life is subsumed under the developed private interests of a ruling class.]

• The history of feudal Islam

On the road from Morocco: Rough guide to another world

By Veronica Horwell, Le Monde diplomatique, August 2003. In 1325, Ibn Battutah, a 21-year-old of Berber descent, set off from his home city of Tangier to fulfil the Muslim duty to make the Haj to Mecca. He was a very modern figure: a well-educated economic migrant, a serial husband, a networker, something of a gourmet, and a snob. He reached east of Sumatra, south of Mombasa and far north of Astrakhan.