Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Medieval History

Consider a work with the following features:

  • It was written in Arabic by a Moroccan traveller.
  • It described Delhi and Daulatabad as large cities.
  • It recorded that the foot-post was faster than the horse-post.
  • Its author served as Qazi of Delhi and later travelled as the Sultan's envoy.

Which work is being described?

  1. Rihla
  2. Tabaqat-i-Nasari
  3. Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi
  4. Tughlaq Nama
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