Glossary — Ibn Battuta

Tangier
his Moroccan city, which he left as a young man and did not see for thirty years
the Hajj
the Hajj — the reason he first set out, before everything else
the Rihla
his famous book, which he dictated after returning to Morocco
qadi
his judgeship in the Maldives and in the city of Delhi
envoy
the envoy mission Delhi's sultan sent him on to the emperor of China
the Maldives
the islands where he judged with justice for two years
Morocco
his country, which he came back to after thirty years of travel
Mali
his last journey, across the Sahara to the kingdom of Mali
China
the farthest country he reached in the far east of the earth
Ibn Juzayy
the scribe in Fez he dictated his journeys' memories to
sultan
the rulers and sultans he served along his long road
distance
his journey's rough length — some hundred and twenty thousand kilometres

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