Ross E. Dunn is Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University where he taught African, Islamic, and world history. He is currently an associate director of the National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA. His publications include The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century and History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past with Gary B. Nash and Charlotte Crabtree.
The Miskhal Mosque in Calicut (Kozhikode), Kerala State, India
Named in commemoration of its patron, the renowned 14th-century merchant and shipbuilder Nakhuda Miskhal, this famous structure survived partial destruction at the hands of Portuguese invaders in 1510. The Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta may have prayed here in the early 1340s.