Ross E. Dunn is Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University where he taught African, Islamic, and world history. 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. In February 2026 Bloomsbury Academic published Ross Edmunds Dunn and Urmi Engineer Willoughby, Panorama, A World History in two volumes.

In February of this year Urmi Engineer Willoughby and I published Panorama, a World History in two volumes with Bloomsbury Academic. The company will feature Panorama at its booth at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New Orleans, January 7-10, 2027. Urmi and I will attend the conference. Urmi is a speaker in three panel sessions! We will both stop by the booth several times. We look forward to seeing you there.

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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.