THE AUTHOR :
Lotfi Akalay accompanied Ibn Battuta, the Tangier, throughout this journey. He lent his pen, when steps deserved a longer halt; it was short, Ibn Battuta where was lost in descriptions too minute for us, eager readers. He made this company the fourteenth century, a modern epic. Lotfi Akalay knew all their modernity return to the adventures of the most famous "traveler of Islam," as was known to his contemporaries. Columnist for the weekly La Vie Economique and the monthly Women of Morocco, Akalay Lotfi was born in Tangier in 1943 where he resides. Ibn Battuta is his second published novel after Azed Nights (1996).
THE BOOK :
"... It all started on June 14th 1325 I was 21 when I made the decision that would change the course of my life ... Wherever my feet led me, I received a welcome fraternal, I got without asking selfless support of hundreds of people, poor people, like lords. in the harshest deserts, I found jars of water usually installed by an anonymous with the humble desire to provide help, sometimes to save from certain death the lone stranger or wanderer. each step of my journey, I was showered with presents. I instructed and they provided me with diplomas that allow me to provide universal education. However, I also witnessed the cruelty, meanness and deceit ... ".
Lotfi Akalay accompanied Ibn Battuta, the Tangier, throughout this journey. He lent his pen, when steps deserved a longer halt; it was short, Ibn Battuta where was lost in descriptions too minute for us, eager readers. He made this company the fourteenth century, a modern epic. Lotfi Akalay knew all their modernity return to the adventures of the most famous "traveler of Islam," as was known to his contemporaries. Columnist for the weekly La Vie Economique and the monthly Women of Morocco, Akalay Lotfi was born in Tangier in 1943 where he resides. Ibn Battuta is his second published novel after Azed Nights (1996).
THE BOOK :
"... It all started on June 14th 1325 I was 21 when I made the decision that would change the course of my life ... Wherever my feet led me, I received a welcome fraternal, I got without asking selfless support of hundreds of people, poor people, like lords. in the harshest deserts, I found jars of water usually installed by an anonymous with the humble desire to provide help, sometimes to save from certain death the lone stranger or wanderer. each step of my journey, I was showered with presents. I instructed and they provided me with diplomas that allow me to provide universal education. However, I also witnessed the cruelty, meanness and deceit ... ".
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