700-year-old Ibn Battuta manuscript sells for nearly Dh1 million at Abu Dhabi book fair

A manuscript preserving Ibn Battuta's celebrated account of his travels through the Hejaz and the Gulf has sold at the 35th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair for close to Dh1 million.Brought to the fair by London-based rare book dealer Peter Harrington, the manuscript preserves Ibn Battuta's account of the Hejaz and the Gulf, part of the Rihla, the 14th-century travel account often described as the medieval world's most ambitious record of a single life spent on the road.One of the earliest eyew...

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