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Mackintosh-Smith lives in an ancient tower house off the "Market of the Cows" in the old city of [[San'a]], Yemen. He is the author of the ''Yemen: Travels in Dictionaryland'' (1997) and ''Yemen: The Unknown Arabia'' (2000). He is one of the foremost scholars of the Morrocan traveller [[Ibn Battutah]]. Mackintosh-Smith has published a trilogy recounting his journeys in "the footnotes" of [[Ibn Battutah]]; ''Travels with A Tangerine'' (2001), ''The Hall of a Thousand Columns'' (2005) and ''Landfalls'' (2010) |
Mackintosh-Smith lives in an ancient tower house off the "Market of the Cows" in the old city of [[San'a]], Yemen. He is the author of the ''Yemen: Travels in Dictionaryland'' (1997) and ''Yemen: The Unknown Arabia'' (2000). He is one of the foremost scholars of the Morrocan traveller [[Ibn Battutah]]. Mackintosh-Smith has published a trilogy recounting his journeys in "the footnotes" of [[Ibn Battutah]]; ''Travels with A Tangerine'' (2001), ''The Hall of a Thousand Columns'' (2005) and ''Landfalls'' (2010) |
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Tim Mackintosh-Smith (born 17 July 1961) is a British, Yemen-based, Oxford-educated[1] Arabist, writer, traveller and lecturer.
Mackintosh-Smith lives in an ancient tower house off the "Market of the Cows" in the old city of San'a, Yemen. He is the author of the Yemen: Travels in Dictionaryland (1997) and Yemen: The Unknown Arabia (2000). He is one of the foremost scholars of the Morrocan traveller Ibn Battutah. Mackintosh-Smith has published a trilogy recounting his journeys in "the footnotes" of Ibn Battutah; Travels with A Tangerine (2001), The Hall of a Thousand Columns (2005) and Landfalls (2010)
He presented a BBC documentary series [1] recreating the experience of tracing Ibn Battutah's fourteenth century travels into the present day.
He has additionally written widely on subjects as broad as alabaster, the collection of frankincense, the stories of M.R. James and the history of umbrellas. He has featured in a documentary film The English Sheik and the Yemeni Gentleman.
Mackintosh-Smith has won several awards: Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, won the 1998 Thomas Cook / Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award. Landfalls. The Daily Telegraph has described him as "the sage of Sana'a" [1]
Sources
External links
- Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah —John Murray, 2003. first part of trilogy following the footsteps of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
- The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah —John Murray, 2005. second part of trilogy by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
- Landfalls: on the Edge of Islam with Ibn Battutah —John Murray, 2010. final part of trilogy by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
- Moonglow from Underground — Saudi Aramco World article by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (May/June 1999).
- A Tangerine in Delhi — Saudi Aramco World article by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (March/April 2006).
- Mackintosh-Smith's official website
References
- ^ a b Barnaby Rogerson (30 October 2010). "Tim Mackintosh-Smith's Yemen". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 January 2011.