IBN BATTUTA’S WORLD TOUR
THE GREAT DESERT A caravan treks through the Sahara in Mali – Ibn Battuta crossed the same sun-baked sands some 665 years ago
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Like Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta’s adventures weren’t recorded until he’d stopped travelling – and some of his claims are deemed questionable. Yet the book about his wanderings, Rihla: My Travels, remains a fascinating portal into Dar al-Islam – the medieval Muslim world – and an important source of information about everything from politics and geography through to cultural attitudes.