Ibn Battuta

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"Ibn Battuta (or Ibn Baṭūṭah) (/ˌɪbənbætˈtuːtɑː/; Arabic: محمد ابن بطوطة‎; fully ʾAbū ʿAbd al-Lāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Lāh l-Lawātī ṭ-Ṭanǧī ibn Baṭūṭah; Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي بن بطوطة) (February 25, 1304 – 1368 or 1369) was a Berber Muslim Moroccan scholar and explorer who widely travelled the medieval world.[1][2] Over a period of thirty years, Ibn Battuta visited most of the Islamic world and many non-Muslim lands, including North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and China. Near the end of his life, he dictated an account of his journeys, titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling (تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار, Tuḥfat an-Nuẓẓār fī Gharāʾib al-Amṣār wa ʿAjāʾib al-Asfār),[3] usually simply referred to as The Travels (الرحلة, Rihla).[4]This account of his journeys provides a picture of medieval civilisation that is still widely consulted today."

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• 1 Life

  • 1.1 Early life

  • 1.2 Itinerary 1325–1332

    • 1.2.1 First pilgrimage

    • 1.2.2 Iraq and Persia

    • 1.2.3 Arabia

    • 1.2.4 Somalia

    • 1.2.5 Swahili Coast

  • 1.3 Itinerary 1332–1347

    • 1.3.1 Anatolia

    • 1.3.2 Central Asia

    • 1.3.3 South Asia

    • 1.3.4 Southeast Asia

    • 1.3.5 China

    • 1.3.6 Return

  • 1.4 Itinerary 1349–1354

    • 1.4.1 Spain and North Africa

    • 1.4.2 Mali and Timbuktu

• 2 Works

• 3 See also

• 4 Notes

• 5 References

  • 5.1 Citations

  • 5.2 Bibliography

• 6 External links

Ibn Battuta: The Greatest Traveller in History?

•Sep 16, 2017

History Time

In September 1353, the Sultan of Morocco, Abu Inan Faris, sent word to one of his subjects, a legal scholar named Ibn Battuta, to return home back to Tangiers. It would be the first time Battuta would spend a significant amount of time in his homeland since he had left to go on pilgrimage to Mecca nearly thirty years before in 1325. During that three decade period, Battuta, a well educated Islamic Scholar from a wealthy family, had travelled across the entirety of the Muslim world, and even beyond, to the Eastern Roman capital of Constantinople, and even China. During his lifetime, he journeyed across a total of forty modern day counties, a distance of well over 70,000 miles, spending a significant amount of time in every place he visited. He visited Egypt, Arabia, East Africa, Anatolia, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, India, China, South East Asia, Spain and even traversed the Saharan Desert to arrive in West Africa before he finally returned home to recant his life story to the scholar Ibn Juzayy, who had been instructed by the Sultan to record the incredible journey for posterity.

Ibn Battuta - The Great Traveler - Extra History - #1

•Mar 7, 2020

Extra Credits

Ibn Battuta set out for the city of Mecca and expected to be gone for a little over two years, maybe three if he took his time. He had no way of knowing that he would not see his home city or town for another 24 years. In that time, he will have traveled almost the entirety of the Islamic world, gone for over 75,000 miles, and write a travelogue that scholars still refer to understand the world of the 15th century. He's also a bit of a narc.

Great Voyages: Traveler's Tips from the 14th Century: The Detours of Ibn Battuta

•Dec 13, 2013

Penn Museum

Paul Cobb, Professor, Islamic History, University of Pennsylvania presents Traveler's Tips from the 14th Century: The Detours of Ibn Battuta. In 1325, a Moroccan scholar named Ibn Battuta set out to do a bit of traveling. When he finally returned to his homeland 30 years later, he had visited the equivalent of over 40 modern countries, traversed the entire eastern hemisphere, and logged about 73,000 miles. After his return home, the sultan of Morocco commissioned a writer to record Ibn Battuta's recollections of his journeys. The result was a book known as the Travels of Ibn Battuta, one of the world's classic travel narratives and a key window into the cosmopolitan world of medieval Islam. The 14th century offered a different world of travel than the one that confronts us today—or did it? What advice can Ibn Battuta provide the globe-trotting public of the 21st century?

Travels of Ibn Battuta