Ibn Battuta passes through Jedda on the way to Yemen.
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Title
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Ibn Battuta passes through Jedda on the way to Yemen.
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Description
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“After the Pilgrimage at the close of the year 1330 I set out from Mecca, making for yemen. I arrived at Judda [Jedda], an ancient town on the sea-coast, which is said to have been built by the Persians...At the Friday service at Judda, the muezzin comes and counts the number of the inhabitants of the town present. If they amount to forty the preacher holds the Friday service, but if they are fewer he prays the midday prayer four times, taking no account of the strangers present, however many they may be.”
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Date
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1330
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Bibliographic Citation
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Ibn Batuta, Gibb, H. A. R. S., Sanguinetti, B. R., & Defremery, C. (1958). Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press.
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Subject
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Travel
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Source
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Gibb 106.
