\paperw4260 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs24 In the twelfth century, the Arab writer Ibn Jubayr transformed his pilgrimage from his native Granada to \b \cf1 \ATXht53 Mecca
\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 into an adventurous account of a journey through Sicily, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Lively and irascible in temperament, Ibn Jubayr relates the hardships of the journey, from ill treatment at the hands of foreigners to problems with
customs, and tells of fights between rival tribes and of the hostility between Muslims and Christians in a Jerusalem recently conquered by the Crusaders.\par
