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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2015
Print publication year:
2012
First published in:
1855
Online ISBN:
9781139176293
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139176293
Subjects:
Middle East Studies, British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, History, Regional History Before 1500, Middle East History
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History
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Book description

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'.

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