Episode 8: Salahuddin
Ibn Battuta Season 1 • 10m
Ibn Battuta tries to find his money and returns to search for the young men who hosted him. He is surprised to learn that they had left the city. Ibn Battuta recalls an incident where he bumped into someone at the gates of the cemetery and during his search he hears an announcement by one of the prince’s soldiers asking for workers to aid with construction in Prince Salahuddin’s house.
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Episode 9: Caravan
The Prince selects Ibn Battuta to work alongside a group of young men. The task he starts off with his breaking rocks, which causes pain in his hands due to the strenuous labour. Ibn Battuta returns and meets the chief of the merchants and the Prince. The chief tells the ruler about how Ibn Battu...
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Episode 10: Al-Zahir Baybars
Ibn Battuta waits out a battle for three nights. The aftermath of the battle leads to the destruction of all the ships at the port. Ibn Battuta remaps his course of travel and returns to Egypt, then heads to Damascus, and through it he entered Gaza, where he was eager to visit the library built b...
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Episode 11: Nawara
Learning of Nawara’s predicament, Ibn Battuta attempts to help save her father. They try to meet the Sultan’s demands by finding the elixir. They search Abu Yakob’s room and the well that Nawara discarded Abu Yakob’s belongings in. They find a Latin manuscript and head to Beirut to have it transl...
