[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Arabic](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar) › [Travel and sea narratives](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla) › [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt) › 13.33.3 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.33.3 English (machine translation) 13.33.3 - **Language:** English ### [13.33.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.33.3) Then he ordered those trays to be carried to the place of his private sitting, and they were carried there; he rose and went to his audience room and summoned me, and ordered food, and I ate. Then he asked me about a kind of sweetmeat that I had sent him before, and I said to him, "O Khwand ʿĀlam, there are many kinds of those sweetmeats, and I do not know which kind of them you are asking about." He said, "Bring those aṭbāq" — they call a tray a ṭabaq. So they brought them, set them before him and uncovered them, and he said, "This is what I asked you about," and took the dish that it was in. I said to him, "This is called al-muqarraḍa." Then he took another kind and said, "And what is the name of this?" I said to him, "It is luqaymāt al-qāḍī \[the qāḍī's morsels\]." In his presence there was a merchant, one of the shaykhs of Baghdad, known as al-Sāmarrī, who traced his descent to the house of al-ʿAbbās (may God Most High be pleased with him); he was very wealthy, and the Sultan called him "my father." He envied me and wanted to embarrass me, so he said, "These are not luqaymāt al-qāḍī; rather these are," and took a piece of the kind called jild al-faras \[horse's hide\]. Opposite him was the Malik al-Nudamāʾ Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Kāfī al-Harawī, who often joked with this shaykh in the Sultan's presence, and he said to him: - [Previous: 13.33.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.33.2) - [Next: 13.33.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.33.4) - [Up: 13.33](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.33) ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.33.3) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.33.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.33.3) · Pramāṇa