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Quotation from The Travels of Ibn Battuta by Ibn Battuta
“saw in a dream the same night, myself placed on the wings of a great bird, which fled away with me towards the temple at Mecca.”
The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Chapter II (the cell of Sheikh al-Murshidi), trans. Samuel Lee (1829)
Sleeping on the roof of the holy man's cell, Ibn Battuta dreams of a flight that the sheikh interprets as his future journeys.
Citation: "saw in a dream the same night, myself placed on the wings of a great bird, which fled away with me towards the temple at Mecca." — Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Chapter II (the cell of Sheikh al-Murshidi), trans. Samuel Lee (1829). (id ibn-battuta-travels-q2)
Portrait: Découverte de la Terre 023, Léon Benett, Public domain.
