This person criticized a stingy ruler with the anecdote of a talking locust sent by God to destroy an unjust land’s crops and claimed that cannibals avoid “unripe” white skin. Biru’s ill-mannered farba offended this resident of the “white quarter,” who fell ill for months from undercooked colocasia. Though this person married over ten times and bought many jawari concubines, he scorned nudity at court before Queen Qāsā’s failed coup against Sulaymān. He lamented the deserted imperial “Red City” after he canceled plans to defend Gibraltar due to Alfonso XI dying of plague. The Marinid sultan Abu ’Inan Faris commanded this Mālikī qāḍī to dictate his life to Ibn Juzayy, who plagiarized Ibn Jubayr’s earlier Riḥla (“RIH-hluh”) to report his visit to the fly-ridden salt mines of Taghaza. For 10 points, name this key source on the Mali Empire, a Moroccan world traveler. ■END■
ANSWER: Ibn Baṭṭūṭa (“IB-un buh-TOO-tuh”) [or Abū Abdullah Muḥammad ibn Baṭṭūṭah or Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Lawātiyy aṭ-Ṭanjiyy ibn Baṭṭūṭah] (Biru is also known as Oualata.)
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