Travels

Travels, classic travel account by Ibn Baṭṭūṭah of his journeys through virtually all Muslim countries and many adjacent lands. The full title means “The Gift of the Beholders on the Peculiarities of the Regions and the Marvels of Journeys.” The narrative was dictated in 1353 to Ibn Juzayy, who embellished the simple prose of Ibn Baṭṭūṭah with an ornate style and fragments of poetry. Travels is an important document shedding light on many aspects of...