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Ibn Battuta, The great traveller

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Ibn Battutaابن بطوطة

Approximate dateTangier

A judge from Tangier who travelled some 117,000 km across the Muslim world and beyond.

He left for Hajj at twenty-one and did not return home for twenty-four years, travelling from Morocco to China and from the Volga to East Africa, and serving as judge in Delhi and the Maldives. In 1352 he crossed the Sahara to the Mali Empire. He dictated his Rihla to Ibn Juzayy in Fez.

What grew out of it?

His Rihla is a unique portrait of the 14th-century Muslim world.

Where do they appear in the story?

Who else is linked?

TangierZaynab bint al-KamalIbn JubayrMuhammad bin TughluqMansa SulaymanMarinidsDelhi SultanateMali EmpireAbu Inan FarisOzbeg KhanKilwaMogadishuSamudra PasaiQuanzhou (Zaytun)

Who lived at the same time?

Muhammad bin TughluqOrhanYusuf I of GranadaOzbeg KhanMansa MusaMansa SulaymanAbu Inan FarisSultan Hasan

Source: history · Wikipedia

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