Who was Ibn Battuta?

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Ibn Battuta (1304–1369) was the greatest traveller of the Middle Ages. He covered about 120,000 km across the Muslim world over three decades, and he wrote the work known as Tuhfat al-Nuzzar. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas