Read these two accounts written by Islamic travelers to medieval sub-Saharan Africa. What can we say about the values of these two authors? How do they regard the people they visit? What kind of standards do they use to evaluate the cultures they encounter? 1 Leo Africanus: Description of Timbuktu; 2. Ibn Battuta: Travels in Africa 1325-1354

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