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From a noted journalist who has spent much of his life in Cairo, here is a dazzling cultural excavation of that most ancient, colorful, and multifaceted of cities. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to Saladin to Napoleon, Cairo--nicknamed "the... read more

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ABU ABDALLAH MUHAMMAD Ibn Battuta set out from Tangier on the second day of the month of Rajab in the seven-hundred-and-twenty-fifth year of the Hejira.

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  1. Max Rodenbeck (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0679446516
Page Count: 300

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