Rise and Spread of Islam 622-1500: Lifestyle and Recreation Research Article from World Eras

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Rise and Spread of Islam 622-1500: Lifestyle and Recreation Research Article from World Eras

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When Ibn Battuta visited Mogadishu in East Africa around, 1330 local officials gave him gifts of clothing from various parts of the Muslim empire:

On the fourth day, which was a Friday, the qadi and . . . one of the Shaikh's viziers came to me, bringing a set of robes; these robes consist of a silk wrapper which one ties around his waist in place of sarwal (for they have no acquaintance with these), a tunic of Egyptian linen with an embroidered border, a furred mantle of Jerusalem stuff, and an Egyptian turban with an embroidered edge. . . . They also brought robes for my companions suitable to their position. . . .

Source: Ross E. Dunn, Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).

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