Basic Structures and Signs of Alienation in the "Riḥla" of Ibn Jubayr Author(s): Ian Richard Netton Source: Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 21-37 Published by: Brill Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4183233 Accessed: 25-10-2016 08:44 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Brill is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Arabic Literature This content downloaded from 140.105.48.199 on Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:44:54 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Journal of Arabic Literature, XXII BASIC STRUCTURES AND SIGNS OF ALIENATION IN THE RIHLA OF IBN JUBAYR* In a previous article I identified in the Rihla of Ibn Battuta (AD 1304- 1368/9 or 1377) what I termed his "pilgrim paradigm".' Using insights garnered from the three-tier approach to history devised by the great French scholar Fernand Braudel (1902-85), doyen supreme of the French Annales school of history, I maintained that this paradigm comprised "a series of four searches: for the shrine and/or its circumambient religious geography; for knowledge; for recognition and/or