Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s “Prayer of Damascus:” A window on to Damascus in the hell of the Black Death (Part 1)
Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s famous Riḥla [(Chronicle of) Travels] is probably the only work of medieval travel literature whose protagonist claims to have personally witnessed the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which ravaged the Mediterranean world between 1348-1350 (and continued in subsequent waves)...
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| Language: | English |
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Università degli Studi di Torino
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies |
| Online Access: | https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/kervan/article/view/5785 |