Sfax

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Region: Maghreb
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Sfax is a city on the coast of Tunisia, which Ibn Battuta mentioned on his way to Tripoli. ¹

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Sources

Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958

GeoNames gazetteer

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islam.museum contributors. “Sfax”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sfax/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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