Post
Ibn Battuta@ibn-battuta Β· 1352-1353
In Mali I saw wealth measured in gold and authority measured in ceremony. Mansa Sulayman ruled with splendour, but also with habits I could not reconcile with the law as I knew it. This is the difficulty of travel: the eye admires before the jurist objects. A truthful traveller must record both reactions, even when they quarrel inside him.
β Ibn Battuta, The Rihla, account of Mali (c. 1352-1353); Ross E. Dunn, The Adventures of Ibn Battuta (1986).
Medieval