Ross E. Dunn: Difference between revisions

'''Ross E. Dunn''' is an American historian<ref name=nyt19971130>{{cite news |title=Don't Know Much About History |url=httphttps://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/30/reviews/971130.30wilentt.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 30, 1997 |accessdate=January 31, 2011 }}</ref> and writer, the author of several books including ''The Adventures of Ibn Battuta'',<ref>{{cite news |title=HER WORLD; Ancient tale transports a 21st century traveler; A Moroccan with wanderlust begins with a pilgrimage to Mecca -- but he doesn't stop there. |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 30, 2005 |page=L.5 }}</ref> and coauthor of the highly cited<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=15628561976238283400&hl=en&as_sdt=1,5 |title=Nash: History on trial: Culture wars and the teaching... |work=[[Google Scholar]] |accessdate=31 January 2011 }}</ref> ''History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past''.<ref name=nyt19971130/><ref>{{cite news |title=Understanding Clio |url=httphttps://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/16812868.html?dids=16812868:16812868&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+05%2C+1997&author=LAWRENCE+W.+LEVINE&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Understanding+Clio%3B+HISTORY+ON+TRIAL%3A+Culture+Wars+and+the+Teaching+of+the+Past.+By+Gary+B.+Nash%2C+Charlotte+Crabtree+and+Ross+E.+Dunn+.+Alfred+A.+Knopf%3A+336+pp.%2C+%2426%3B+ON+HISTORY.+By+Eric+Hobsbawm+.+The+New+Press%3A+306+pp.%2C+%2425%3B+THE+KILLING+OF+HISTORY%3A+How+Literary+Critics+and+Social+Theorists+Are+Murdering+Our+Past.+By+Keith+Windschuttle+.+The+Free+Press%3A+304+pp.%2C+%2425&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105111825/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/16812868.html?dids=16812868:16812868&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+05,+1997&author=LAWRENCE+W.+LEVINE&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Understanding+Clio%3B+HISTORY+ON+TRIAL:+Culture+Wars+and+the+Teaching+of+the+Past.+By+Gary+B.+Nash,+Charlotte+Crabtree+and+Ross+E.+Dunn+.+Alfred+A.+Knopf:+336+pp.,+$26%3B+ON+HISTORY.+By+Eric+Hobsbawm+.+The+New+Press:+306+pp.,+$25%3B+THE+KILLING+OF+HISTORY:+How+Literary+Critics+and+Social+Theorists+Are+Murdering+Our+Past.+By+Keith+Windschuttle+.+The+Free+Press:+304+pp.,+$25&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 5, 2012 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 5, 1997 |accessdate=January 31, 2011 }}</ref> He is [[Professor Emeritus]] at [[San Diego State University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cias.sdsu.edu/faculty.htm |title=Center For Islamic And Arabic Studies |publisher=[[San Diego State University]] |accessdate=31 January 2011 }}</ref>

''The Adventures of Ibn Battuta'' is based on the travels of the famous 14th -century Muslim adventurer [[Ibn Battuta]]. He traveled from [[Morocco]] in [[West Africa]] to [[China]]; however, the book mostly focuses on his travels between his hometown in Morocco to [[Mecca]] in [[Saudi Arabia]]. The book was first published in 1986 and reissued in 2005<ref>{{cite news |title=Revealed: Muslim traveler who rivaled Marco Polo |url=httphttps://articleswww.sfgate.com/2005-11-13/travel/17400101_1_traveldepartures/article/Revealed-observationsMuslim-dartraveler-alwho-islamrivaled-muslimMarco-travelerPolo-2595921.php |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=November 13, 2005 |accessdateaccess-date=January 31, 2011 }}</ref> by [[University of California Press]].

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