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Ta'un
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The plague — the Black Death that devastated the world while Ibn Battuta was in the East. Upon returning westward, he found entire communities decimated, including in Damascus and Cairo, and his account provides one of the few non-European perspectives on the pandemic.
As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Battuta and the scholars of his school.
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