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Ibn Batuta

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ibn Batuta , 1304?-1378?, Muslim traveler, b. Tangier. No other medieval traveler is known to have journeyed so extensively. In 30 years (from c.1325) he made a series of journeys recorded in a dictated account. He traveled overland in North Africa and Syria to make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Afterward he visited Arabia, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Asia Minor. He made a journey by way of Samarkand to India, where he resided for almost eight years at the court of the sultan of Delhi, who sent him to China as one of his ambassadors. Ibn Batuta visited the Maldives, the Malabar coast, Ceylon (Sri Lanka),... Read more
Ibn Batuta
Ibn Batuta (1304?–68?) Arab traveller and writer. Born in Tangier, Morocco, he began his adventures in c. 1325 with a pilgrimage to... Read more
Muhammad ibn Battuta
...and Ceylon was published by Agha Mahdi Husain, The Rehla of Ibn Battuta (1953). Ibn Battuta is also discussed in Charles Raymond Beazley, The...1928). Additional Sources Dunn, Ross E., The adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim traveler of the fourteenth century, Berkeley...University of California Press, ... Read more

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