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Erudito y explorador musulmán magrebí del siglo XIV
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Ibn Battuta fue un viajero, explorador y erudito musulmán magrebí de Tangier, Morocco. Durante un período de 30 años (1325-1354) visitó gran parte de África, Asia y la Península Ibérica. Hacia el final de su vida, Ibn Battuta dictó un relato de sus viajes, titulado A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling, comúnmente conocido como The Rihla.
“I arrived at length at Cairo, mother of cities and seat of Pharaoh the tyrant, mistress of broad regions and fruitful lands, boundless in multitude of buildings, peerless in beauty and splendour, the meeting-place of comer and goer, the halting-place of feeble and mighty, whose throngs surge as the waves of the sea, and can scarce be contained in her for all her size and capacity."”
“After this I proceeded to the city of Barwan, in the road to which is a high mountain, covered with snow and exceedingly cold; they call it the Hindu Kush, that is Hindu-slayer, because most of the slaves brought thither from India die on account of the intenseness of the cold.”
“Minced meat cooked with almond, walnut, pistachios, onion and spices placed inside a thin bread and fried in ghee.””
“Once there arrived in Delhi some female infidel captives, ten of whom the Vazir sent to me. I gave one of them to the man who had brought them . . . My companion took three young girls, and I do not know what happened to the rest.”
“The inhabitants of Habanq are infidels under protection (zimma) from whom half of the crops which they produce is taken; besides they have to perform certain duties.”
“I purchased at this price a very beautiful slave girl whose name was Ashura. A friend of mine also bought a young slave named Lulu for two gold coins.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
