Топоним Кāкула в «Путешествии» Ибн Баттуты и других арабских источниках

Аглая Алексеевна Янковская

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Аглая Алексеевна Янковская Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS, 3, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation

Abstract

The article deals with the accounts of South-East Asia by Ibn Battuta, a 14th century Arab traveler. In his itinerary Ibn Battuta mentions Qāqula — a seaport town of unknown location. According to some researchers, it should be located on the Tenasserim coast, but this assumption comes into collision with the route of the traveler. It is supposed that this confusion is a result of the corruption of the text in the course of copying. But some ideas on the location of Qāqula are largely based on its position to the west of Kalah — another seaport considered to be on the north-western coast of Malacca. In the meanwhile there’s a theory that places Kalah near Klang, so Qāqula might be much southward on Ibn Battuta’s way. The problem of the location of Qāqula remains unsolved, but its description in “The Journey” of Ibn Battuta serves as a source of data on the history and ethnology of South-East Asia. The traveler describes the town and his visit to the court of its ruler, as well as local spices, customs and court ceremonial. The translation of the extracts of “The Journey” of Ibn Battuta devoted to Qāqula is given in the article, and the references to this toponym in the other medieval Arabic texts are considered.

Keywords:

Ibn Battuta, South-East Asia, Arabic geographical literature, the Middle Ages, travelling

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