Also published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-216) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers. Born in fourteenth-century Morocco and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta has left us an account in his own words of his remarkable journeys throughout the Islamic world and beyond. ... David Waines discusses [Ibn Battuta's work], life, and times ..."--Jacket.
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Parallel Title
Ibn Battuta
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Ibn Batuta,1304-1377-- Travel-- Islamic Empire.
Ibn Batuta,1304-1377., Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʼib al-amṣār wa-ʻajāʼib al-asfār.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Travel, Medieval.
Travelers-- Islamic Empire, Biography.
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Islamic Empire, Description and travel, Early works to 1800.