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Abstract: This article documents our attempt, through primary and secondary source research, including French archival sources, to understand how a copy of Ibn Battuta's (d. 1369) Rihla manuscript, dictated to Ibn Juzayy (d. 1357) at the request of the Moroccan sultan in the 1400s, made its way from North Africa to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris during the 1800s. It also seeks to understand why there has been so little interest in the provenance of the Rihla manuscript held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Herein we describe and analyze the circumstances under which a French government functionary and Arabist, Jacques Denis-Delaporte, took an exemplar manuscript from North Africa during the early years of French colonization, and the many lives the text itself has had in the West.
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