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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, (10[2])who plagiarized Ibn Jubayr’s earlier Riḥla (“RIH-hluh”) to report his visit to (10[1])the fly-ridden (10[1]-5[1])salt mines of Taghaza. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, name this key (10[1])source (10[1])on the Mali Empire, (10[2]-5[1])a Moroccan (10[2])world (-5[1])traveler. (10[3])■END■ (10[10])

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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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y24100%0%17%135.25

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Matt JacksonChicago APurdue10910
Jakob MyersIndianaWUSTL A10910
Lexi TermanRutgersVirginia12010
Chris SimsNorthwesternMichigan12210
Andrew ZengStanfordWaterloo122-5
Cooper RohColumbia ACornell A126-5
Halle FriedmanNYUGeorgia Tech12610
Donal RyanTruman StateCornell B13210
Shardul RaoMinnesota ANorth Carolina A13310
Ashish SubramanianDukeArizona State137-5
Joey SunToronto BPenn13710
William FosterChicago DVanderbilt13710
Adrian WongOttawaFlorida13910
Jem BurchYale BWUSTL B13910
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BHarvard140-5
Jaik HavlickArizona StateDuke14110
Dennis ReppenChicago CKentucky14110
Sinecio MoralesJohns HopkinsToronto A14110
Jake GreerHarvardBerkeley B14210
Chinmay MurthyTexasChicago B14210
Nathan ZhangCornell AColumbia A14210
John John GrogerColumbia BClaremont Colleges14210
Nathaniel HullBerkeley AIllinois14210
Jason HongBrownIowa State14210
Karsten RynearsonYale AMaryland14210
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BSouth Carolina14210
Graham TroyNorth Carolina BMcGill14210
Mattias EhatammWaterlooStanford14210