History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c14.14

c14.14

Lees' translation of the Travels of Ibn Batūṭah which was translated from the abridged Arabic MSS. preserved in the public library of Cambridge with notes and which was published by the Oriental Translation Fund in 1829 A.D. does not go far enough and fails to give us a complete picture of the India of Muhammad Tughluq's time. More full and accurate is the French edition of Ibn Batūṭah's Voyages by C. Defrémery and B. R. Sanguinetti in four volumes with a French translation of the text, a chronology and an exhaustive list of contents. When the French conquered Algiers, MSS. of the unabridged work came into their hands. There are now five copies in the Imperial Library of Paris only two of which are complete. One of them, Yule remarks (Cathay II, p. 42), has been proved to be an autograph of Ibn Juzzī, the original editor, who abridged the memoranda prepared by the traveller himself. Portions of the travels dealing with Central Asian Countries appeared from time to time in the Journal Asiatique, but the portion dealing with India was never published *in extenso*.