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. 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 3 having decided to visit the court of the Turkic sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq at Delhi he travels via Bukhara and Samarkand to Afghanistan and then across the Hindu Kush into India. At Delhi he was given the post of Judge by the sultan and he stayed at the court for six years. He provides a history of the kingdom of Delhi and an account of Tughluq''s reign describing both his wisdom and generosity and his ''acts of violence and criminal deeds''.