From Sanaa to Aden on Ibn Battuta's journey

من صنعاء إلى عدن في رحلة ابن بطوطة

A stage of Ibn Battuta's journey in Yemen. After staying in Sanaa and visiting its great mosque, he travelled from there to Aden, a harbour on the sea coast ringed by mountains, with no crops or trees, which relies on cisterns for rainwater.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Arabia
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Overview

A stage of Ibn Battuta's journey in Yemen. He stayed in Sanaa and visited its great mosque, then travelled from it to Aden 1.

Sanaa

He describes its rains as heavy, flowing downpours, and its mosque as one of the finest mosques, containing a relic of one of the prophets 1.

Aden

A harbour of the land of Yemen on the coast of the Great Sea, surrounded by mountains, with only one approach to it. It has no crops, no trees and no water, but it has cisterns in which rainwater gathers 1.

The text does not give the duration of the road or its details.

Sources

  1. Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958 , p.159
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