Voyages D'Ibn Batoutah

This Four-Volume Edition Of The Arabic Text Of The Journey Of The Moroccan Traveller Ibn Battuta (130468/9) With A French Translation Was Published In 18538 As Part Of The ''Collection D''Ouvrages Orientaux'' Of The French Socit Asiatique. In 1325 Ibn Battuta Who Came From A Family Of Islamic Jurists In Tangier Set Out To Make The Pilgrimage To Mecca The Beginning Of A Journey That Would Last For Twenty-Four Years And Take Him As Far As China. In Volume 1 He Describes His Departure From Tangier And His Journey Via Tunis To Egypt Where He Travelled To Cairo Planning To Reach A Red Sea Port And Sail To Arabia. The Route Was Closed So He Returned To Cairo And Travelled From There To Damascus Taking In The Holy Places Of Palestine En Route. Having Finally Reached Medina And Mecca He Decided To Travel On To Najaf (In Present-Day Iraq).