Blending Pilgrimage and Learning or the Literary Genres of Riḥla and Muʿjam: Al-Tujībī’s Travelogue to Egypt and Ḥijāz

From the early centuries of Muslim history, one of the most popular pilgrimage routes for the Andalusian and Maghrib? pilgrims involved traveling through Alexandria to Cairo, then spear onward to Upper Egypt, followed by a sea journey to Jidda and finally reaching Makka.In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, several Maghrib? scholars followed

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