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Sfax

صفاقس

A city on the Tunisian coast, which Ibn Battuta mentions on his way to Tripoli.

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Sfax is a city on the coast of Tunisia, which Ibn Battuta mentioned on his way to Tripoli. 1

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Ali Maâloul

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Ali Maâloul

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  1. Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958
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islam.museum contributors. “Sfax”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sfax/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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Ali Maâloul

Tunisian footballer (born 1990 in Sfax), a left-back who began with CS Sfaxien, played for Egypt's Al Ahly from 2016 to 2025, then returned to Sfaxien; he has won around ninety caps for Tunisia.