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Quotation from The Travels of Ibn Battuta by Ibn Battuta
“I myself was present at this mosque in the year 746 (A.D. 1345), when the people were assembled for the purpose of prayer against the plague : which ceased on that very day.”
The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Chapter V (Damascus), trans. Samuel Lee (1829)
Describing the Mosque of the Footprint in Damascus, he recalls the city's communal prayers during an epidemic; the full Rihla dates this to 749 AH (1348), the Black Death.
Citation: "I myself was present at this mosque in the year 746 (A.D. 1345), when the people were assembled for the purpose of prayer against the plague : which ceased on that very day." — Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Chapter V (Damascus), trans. Samuel Lee (1829). (id ibn-battuta-travels-q4)
Portrait: Découverte de la Terre 023, Léon Benett, Public domain.
