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The ninth-century al-
Qar awiy yin mosque in Fez ,
the great imperial city of
Morocco, where Ibn Battuta
dictated his travel memoirs to
a young scribe in 1354The Dome of the Rock in
Jerusalem. “The decoration
is so magnificent and the
workmanship so surpassing
as to defy description,” Ibn
Battuta enthused about this
important Islamic shrineThe Quwwat-ul-Islam
Mosque, a key site in the
Qutb Minar complex that
was still under construction
when Ibn Battuta arrived
in Delhi in 1334