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Ivan Hrbek
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Staff member, Oriental Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, 1953–92. Author of "The Chronology of Ibn Battute's Travels" in Archiv Orientalni.

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Engraving of Ibn Battuta in Egypt, standing on a decorated stone block with another man, overlooking ancient Egyptian columns and palm trees in the background.
Ibn Battuta was the greatest medieval Muslim traveler and the author of one of the most famous travel books, the Riḥlah (Travels). His great work describes his extensive travels covering some 75,000 miles (120,000 km) in trips to almost all of the Muslim countries and as far as China and Sumatra…
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