August 8, 2011 | Vol. 178, No. 5

Summer Journey 2011: Travels Through Islam

Discovering a world of change and challenge in the footsteps of the 14th century explorer Ibn Battua

The Rise of Moderate Islam (Summer Journey)

The Arab Spring is forcing once extremist groups to soften their political positions

World Wanderer (Summer Journey)

Ibn Battuta chronicled the medieval era's great globalizing force: Islam

It Takes a Neighborhood (Summer Journey)

Why Istanbul's Bagcilar quarter is where to see the new Turkey

Urban Legend: The Pull of Tangier (Summer Journey)

Somalia's Sea Wolves (Summer Journey)

For the world, piracy is a major scourge. For Somalia, it's big business

The Making of an Emirate (Summer Journey)

It was Western, not Islamic, financial know-how that built Dubai's grandeur

In Pursuit of Romance (Summer Journey)

For young Saudi men and women, dating means staying ahead of the law

The Sands, and Waters, of Time (Summer Journey)

The New Great Game (Summer Journey)

The theater is Kazakhstan. The player: China

The Exodus from Bukhara (Summer Journey)

History on a Plate (Summer Journey)

A taste of Ibn Battuta's world survives in a wheat-and-meat delicacy

One Faith, Many Strains (Summer Journey)

Shades of Radicalism (Summer Journey)

Kerala has long been India's most open and tolerant state. That's changing

Spain's Identity Crisis (Summer Journey)

Muslim immigrants are changing the complexion of a deeply Catholic land

A Voyager for the Ages (Summer Journey)

What Ibn Battuta saw and heard centuries ago still resonates today

The Enduring Message of Hangzhou (Summer Journey)

One Man's Odyssey (Summer Journey)

Along with Marco Polo and Zheng He, Ibn Battuta is one of history's great explorers. He set out from his native Tangier in 1325, when he was just 21. By the time he returned home for good almost 30 years later, he had covered some 120,000 km and nearly every part of the Islamic world

Editor's Desk: An Islamic Odyssey (Summer Journey)