| The book was dictated to Ibn Juzayy on orders from the Marinid Sultan Abu Inan Faris who was impressed by the story and travels of Ibn Battuta. |
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| In the middle of the 14th century Ibn Battuta crossed the desert from Sijilmasa via the salt mines at Taghaza to the oasis of Oualata. |
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| An Arab Damascene girl was a slave to a king in Mali who was encountered by Ibn Battuta. |
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| Arabic was spoken by the Damascus slave girl of Arab origin to Ibn Battuta in Mali. |
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| It was in Mali where the Damascene slave Arab girl was encountered by Ibn Battuta. |
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| The North African traveler Ibn Battuta, who also visited China during the Yuan dynasty ca. |
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| In 1348, Ibn Battuta arrived in Damascus with the intention of retracing the route of his first hajj. |
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| Once more Ibn Battuta returned to Tangier, but only stayed for a short while. |
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| Also called the Ebony Mosque because of its two ebony pillars, it was mentioned in the writings of Ibn Battuta and Ibn Jubayr. |
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| Disney Television star Laura Marano will visit Modhesh World on August 5, just a day before her concert at Nakheel's Ibn Battuta Mall. |
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| In the year 1345 Ibn Battuta arrived at Quanzhou in China's Fujian province, then under the rule of the Mongols. |
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| Ibn Battuta travelled from Beijing to Hangzhou, and then proceeded to Fuzhou. |
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| After returning to Quanzhou in 1346, Ibn Battuta began his journey back to Morocco. |
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| Maliki Muslims requested Ibn Battuta serve as their religious judge as he was from an area where it was practised. |
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| For safety, Ibn Battuta usually joined a caravan to reduce the risk of being robbed. |
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| Another pious man Sheikh Murshidi interpreted the meaning of a dream of Ibn Battuta that he was meant to be a world traveller. |
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| Ibn Battuta left again for Baghdad, probably in July, but first took an excursion northwards along the river Tigris. |
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| Ibn Battuta also mentions visiting Sana'a, but whether he actually did so is doubtful. |
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| From Aden, Ibn Battuta embarked on a ship heading for Zeila on the coast of Somalia. |
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| When Ibn Battuta arrived in 1331, Mogadishu stood at the zenith of its prosperity. |
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| Ibn Battuta was very impressed with the hospitality that he received and would later stay in their hospices in more than 25 towns in Anatolia. |
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| Historians believe that Ibn Battuta visited a number of towns in central Anatolia, but not in the order that he describes. |
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| Ibn Battuta recorded that while in Bulghar he wanted to travel further north into the land of darkness. |
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| As Ibn Battuta was not a merchant and saw no benefit of going there he abandoned the travel to this land of darkness. |
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| On the strength of his years of study in Mecca, Ibn Battuta was appointed a qadi, or judge, by the sultan. |
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| Upon his arrival in Sindh, Ibn Battuta mentions the Indian rhinoceros that lived on the banks of the Indus. |
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| While Ibn Battuta visited a mosque on shore, a storm arose and one of the ships of his expedition sank. |
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| Following the overthrow of the sultanate, Ibn Battuta had no choice but to leave India. |
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| Ibn Battuta went further north into Assam, then turned around and continued with his original plan. |
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| The island of Sumatra, according to Ibn Battuta, was rich in camphor, areca nut, cloves, and tin. |
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| It was during this journey that Ibn Battuta first encountered a hippopotamus. |
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| After a short stay in Timbuktu, Ibn Battuta journeyed down the Niger to Gao in a canoe carved from a single tree. |
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| After spending a month in Gao, Ibn Battuta set off with a large caravan for the oasis of Takedda. |
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| His account is one of the masterpieces of medieval geographical literature comparable to that of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta. |
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| Ibn Battuta described her people as opponents of the Yuan dynasty. |
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| On his way to Sylhet, Ibn Battuta was greeted by several of Shah Jalal's disciples who had come to assist him on his journey many days before he had arrived. |
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| Later he attended a banquet of the Yuan Mongol administrator of the city named Qurtai, who according to Ibn Battuta, was very fond of the skills of local Chinese conjurers. |
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| Ibn Battuta also mentions locals who worship the Solar deity. |
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| Rather than returning home, Ibn Battuta instead decided to continue on, choosing as his next destination the Ilkhanate, a Mongol Khanate, to the northeast. |
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| On 17 November 1326, following a month spent in Mecca, Ibn Battuta joined a large caravan of pilgrims returning to Iraq across the Arabian Peninsula. |
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| Beejay Colehiyo, a salesclerk at Ibn Battuta Mall who lives in the community, said additional drainage systems should be constructed in the area to prevent flooding. |
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| He attended a banquet held by Qurtai, the Yuan Mongol administrator of the city, who according to Ibn Battuta, was fond of the skills of local Chinese conjurers. |
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| Ibn Battuta was given charge of the embassy but en route to the coast at the start of the journey to China, he and his large retinue were attacked by a group of bandits. |
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