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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 3

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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 3

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

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1097088860

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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

Sub title

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. 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 3, having decided to visit the court of the Turkic sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq at Delhi, he travels via Bukhara and Samarkand to Afghanistan and then across the Hindu Kush into India. At Delhi, he was given the post of Judge by the sultan, and he stayed at the court for six years. He provides a history of the kingdom of Delhi and an account of Tughluq's reign, describing both his wisdom and generosity and his 'acts of violence and criminal deeds'.--, Provided by publisher

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