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Will someone proof read my paper!!!
  1. Unread #1 - Aug 2, 2007 at 10:38 PM
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    Will someone proof read my paper!!!

    Well the first day of school is approaching and I have a report due on the First day of school and I need someone to proof read the paper for me since I do not have acsess to an English Teacher.

    It on the book The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century you don't need to know anything about the book I just want the grammar checked.

    story below tabs are not working so dont say anything about that and im only a tenth grader so don't go crazy if i have alot of mistakes

    Who is Ibn Battuta? Ibn Battuta is an important historical adventurer as shown in the book The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century. The book tells of Ibn life as a young boy in Tangier, Morocco through his 75,000 mile long journey from West Africa, the middle east, India, present day Sri Lanka, and finally to China. The Adventures of Ibn Battuta is a great book that gives the non-historian and adventurous showing of the medieval Islamic world.
    Even though Ibn Battuta life and travels were adventurous, both started out normal. Ibn Battuta was born in 1304 in Tangier, Morocco to a family of Islamic qadis, or judges. Following his parents Ibn was raised to memorize the Quran and know it inside and out. Following his 21st birthday as is customary, Ibn Battuta decided to start his Hajj to Mecca. He set off alone but joined many envoys as he traveled the African Northern coast seeing cities like Algiers, Fez, and Alexandria. After visiting these cities he arrived in Cairo, Egypt, where he then went to travel the rest of Egypt and along the way met a physic that predicted his trip to China. From Egypt he traveled to Palestine to visit Islamic holy cities. There he went to Medina, the burial place of Muhammad, and the Medina to complete his Hajj.
    After completing their Hajj most Islamic men would return home, but Ibn Battuta wanted to see the rest of the Islamic world, so set off to travel the rest of the Middle East. He visited many other cities on his way to Baghdad, which was then in partial ruins because of a Mongolian invasion seven decades earlier. The next stop was Tabriz that is in modern day Azerbaijan, and then decided to travel back to Mecca and stayed there for a year’s time, and then decided to travel again. This time he crisscrossed the Red sea to visit many African countries, like present-day Somalia and Zanzibar, and visited Oman and Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula. He then traveled back to Mecca, and that is where he stayed for another year.
    The next trip for Ibn Battuta was to India where he wanted to become a qadi on the Sultanate of Delhi’s court. To get to India he traveled to Anatolia, present day Turkey, visiting Constanople along the way. He then traveled through the Hindu Kush and then through the Khawak Pass through the Himalayas to reach India. When Ibn reached Delhi, the Sultanate, seeing how well traveled and educated Ibn was, made him a qadi on his court. The arrangement did not last long because the Sultanate was a sporadic leader that always feared over being overtaken, and kicked Ibn out of his court for being friend to a suspected plotter. Again this arrangement did not last long because after forty days the Sultanate sent for Ibn and made him his personal ambassador to China and set him on a journey to China.
    Ibn Battuta set off for China with many gifts from the Sultanate for the Chinese including slaves, horses, and jewels. He traveled with thousand horsemen for protection, which he needed, because of many revolts happening during the time in Southern India. One revolting group attacked Ibn’s party and he fled for his life and hid in a swamp for a week until he was rescued by an Islamic man and then later rejoined his party. Shortly after setting sail from Calicut in Southwestern India a storm destroyed all of Ibn Battuta boats except one, and that one fled, leaving Ibn Battuta stranded in Calicut.
    In Calicut Ibn met up with a captain heading towards the Maldives and joined along on the trip. The Maldives king and queen made him the qadi of the Maldives upon his arrival because of his credentials and experience, and he stayed there as qadi for eight months. He eventually left the Maldives and headed off to Ceylon, present day Sri Lanka, which he visited for spiritual reasons, and then Ibn traveled back to Calicut where he got on a Chinese junker to China. Along the way to China he toured places like Sumatra, in present day Indonesia, the Malay Peninsula, and Vietnam. In China Ibn visited many cities along the Eastern coast as far North as Beijing, but did not stay long because he really did not enjoy his visit to the country.
    Ibn Battuta next decision was to go on his fourth Hajj not knowing that it is actually the beginning of his trip home. He went back to Calicut sailed to Oman, then traveled to Baghdad and finally to Mecca. After completing his Hajj rituals for the last time he set off for Cairo where he first saw the Bubonic Plague that had just became an epidemic, and wrote about the thousand that died everyday in the cities he visited, and when he finally arrived in Tangier he had learned that the same plague had killed his mother.
    Ibn Battuta last adventures started when he decided to go to Southern Islamic Spain to help defend from enemies trying to capture Southern Spain, but when the opposing leader died of the plague he decided to tour Spanish cities like Gibraltar. After returning home he then decided to visit Mali and see the great gold and salt trade, and after several months he returned to Tangier where he wrote his rihla, an Islamic traditional writing of adventures. Ibn Battuta stayed in Tangier as qadi and died sometime between 1368 and 1377.
    The Adventures of Ibn Battuta has much to do with the history of the world. The book gives us a great insight into the Islamic world at that time by showing their customs in learning, travels, and rituals and shows how much fighting was going on between states in Africa and India, plus how the middle east was after the Mongol invasion and traditions of Ceylon and the Maldives. His adventure also helps us understand communication during the time, with word of news traveling through the men on their Hajj from all corners of the Islamic world. Overall The Adventures of Ibn Battuta is a great book on a great-unappreciated adventurer. The story appealed to me because of the adventure side of it but has taught me much on Islamic culture and the history of the Islamic world.
    What started as a simple Hajj became one of the longest adventures in the world as Ibn Battuta saw the entire Islamic world by traveling on mere foot and horseback. His rihla gives us a better understanding of the medieval world and gives us a great story of a great man along with it.
     
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    Will someone proof read my paper!!!

    In the first sentence you made a typo. Make it the "book tells about Ibn's life". There are alot of grammar and spelling mistakes I'd give your report a B- if I was your teacher for this report.
     
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    Will someone proof read my paper!!!

    instead of telling me there are alot of mistakes why dont you tell me what they are so i can have a better paper : )

    and thanks for showing me that typo
     
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