ABSTRACT
The R ihla1 o f Ibn Battuta (d. , 2 the most notable travel book ever written in Arabic, rich in its descriptions o f the great cities o f Islam, public monuments, pious institutions and personalities, written in the conventional literary style o f the time with an aim to inform and entertain readers, is the record o f a dramatic personal adventure by land and sea which provides us with a rich source o f geography, ethnography and cultural history.
