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Rihla — The Travels of Ibn Battuta

Volume One: From Tangier to the Lands of the East

By Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Baṭṭūṭah

أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله بن بطوطة

Duration: 13h 3m
Tier: Free
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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