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# تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.45.3

تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار 13.45.3

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### [13.45.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.45.3)

احتفال بأمير مغولي في البلاط- تصوير جداري رسم يمثل الاحتفال بأحد السفراء- تصوير جداري بقاعة الأعمدة الأربعين

> but if they chose to do this, their request would be complied with: for the place in which this idol-temple was situated had been conquered, and had, in consequence, become a district of the Mohammedans. The Emperor also sent presents much more valuable than those he had received, which were these following, namely: one hundred horses of the best breed saddled and bridled; one hundred Mamluks; one hundred Hindoo singing slave-girls; one hundred Bairami dresses, the value of each of which was a hundred dinars; one hundred silken dresses; five hundred saffron coloured dresses; one hundred pieces of the best cotton cloth; one thousand dresses of the various clothing of India; with numerous instruments of gold and silver, swords and quivers set with jewels, and ten robes of honour wrought with gold, of the Sultan’s own dresses, with various other articles. The Emperor appointed the Emir Zahir Oddin El Zanjani one of the Ulema, with El Fatl Kafur, with whom the present was entrusted, to accompany me. These were favourite officers with the Emperor. He also sent with us a thousand cavalry, who were to conduct us to the place at which we were to take shipping. The servants of the Emperor of China, who amounted to about one hundred, and with whom there was a great Emir, also returned with us. So we left the presence of the Emperor on the 17th day of the month Safar, in the year seven hundred and forty-three (A.D.  
> — Samuel Lee 1829, The Travels of Ibn Batūta

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## Translations (3)

- [The Travels of Ibn Batūta](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.1.3) — Samuel Lee 1829, English
- [Travels in Asia and Africa 1325–1354](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-gibb.7.1.1) — H. A. R. Gibb 1929, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.45.3) — English, machine translation

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