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Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah, Texte Arabe, accompagné d'une traduction, Ibn Batuta, Edited and translated by Charles Defrémery, Beniamino Raffaello Sanguinetti, Volume 1

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Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah, Texte Arabe, accompagné d'une traduction, Ibn Batuta, Edited and translated by Charles Defrémery, Beniamino Raffaello Sanguinetti, Volume 1

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Voyages d'Ibn Batoutah

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1097132709

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Ibn Batuta, Edited and translated by Charles Defrémery, Beniamino Raffaello Sanguinetti

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Cambridge library collection. Medieval historyCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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Texte Arabe, accompagné d'une traduction

Summary

This four-volume edition of the Arabic text of the Journey of the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta (1304–68/9), with a French translation, was published in 1853–8 as part of the 'Collection d'ouvrages orientaux' of the French Société Asiatique. In 1325, Ibn Battuta, who came from a family of Islamic jurists in Tangier, set out to make the pilgrimage to Mecca - the beginning of a journey that would last for twenty-four years and take him as far as China. In Volume 1, he describes his departure from Tangier, and his journey via Tunis to Egypt, where he travelled to Cairo, planning to reach a Red Sea port and sail to Arabia. The route was closed, so he returned to Cairo and travelled from there to Damascus, taking in the holy places of Palestine en route. Having finally reached Medina and Mecca, he decided to travel on, to Najaf (in present-day Iraq).--, Provided by publisher

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