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Rihla — The Travels of Ibn Battuta · Audiobook

Volume One: From Tangier to the Lands of the East

Audiobook in English — narrated from the original Arabic · free to listen

By Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Baṭṭūṭah

أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله بن بطوطة

Duration
13h 3m
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Language
English · Arabic

The first half of Ibn Battuta's extraordinary 30-year journey across the Islamic world — one of the greatest travel accounts ever written.

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