Ibn Battuta Travels
Ibn Battuta (1304-1368)
Ibn Batuta was Probably the most famous of the early Muslim Travelers. On foot and on animal back,he covered about 120,000 kilometers the equivalent of three times round Central Africa to the Russian Steppes. His accounts tell us much about the Muslim world of the 14th Century.
He Studied law, like the rest of his family, but when he was twenty-one he set off on a pilgrimage to Makka. On his first Journey he went via the Red sea to Makka, then Syria Iraq, Khoasan, Southern Persia, Azerbaijan, and back to Baghdad. He settled in Arabia for three years, but then became restless again, and once more set off on a along journey. His travels took him to jeddah, Yemen, Aden, Tanzania(by boat), south Arabia, Oman, Hormuz, South Persia,and back to Makka. His next journey was to the Black sea, Crimea, Constantinople, Russian Steppes, Constantinople again, then Bukhara, Samarkand, Khorasan, Afghanistan, Hindu Kush,and across the Indus. By now, he was famous and had many friends among rulers, princes, Sultans, and emperors
Hw moved on to Delhi, where he met the temperamental king, Mohammad Bin Tughlaq. Ibn Batuta lived in India for several years as the qazi or judge, at Tughlaq's court.
He became involved in a war on the Malabar coast and was shipwrecked at Coromandel. But he sailed on to Maldives and then to Bengal, Assam, Sumatra, and China (beijing).Returning via Sumatra, Banghdad, Syria, and Egypt, he made a final pilgrimage to Makka and then returned to Morocco, again via Egypt and Tunisia, arriving home in 1349. But soon he was on his travels once more, across the straits to Granada the last Muslim Kingdom in Spain.
Though he finally wanted to settle, the sultan of Morocco ordered him to go the Muslim state of Mali in West Africa, crossing the terrible Sahara Desert.Here he stayed for two years, before reaching Morocco again in 1352, and hen vanished from history until his death (1368/9). His account of his travels is the main source of the history and geography of much of the Muslim world in the Middle Ages
Ibn Batuta was Probably the most famous of the early Muslim Travelers. On foot and on animal back,he covered about 120,000 kilometers the equivalent of three times round Central Africa to the Russian Steppes. His accounts tell us much about the Muslim world of the 14th Century.
He Studied law, like the rest of his family, but when he was twenty-one he set off on a pilgrimage to Makka. On his first Journey he went via the Red sea to Makka, then Syria Iraq, Khoasan, Southern Persia, Azerbaijan, and back to Baghdad. He settled in Arabia for three years, but then became restless again, and once more set off on a along journey. His travels took him to jeddah, Yemen, Aden, Tanzania(by boat), south Arabia, Oman, Hormuz, South Persia,and back to Makka. His next journey was to the Black sea, Crimea, Constantinople, Russian Steppes, Constantinople again, then Bukhara, Samarkand, Khorasan, Afghanistan, Hindu Kush,and across the Indus. By now, he was famous and had many friends among rulers, princes, Sultans, and emperors
Hw moved on to Delhi, where he met the temperamental king, Mohammad Bin Tughlaq. Ibn Batuta lived in India for several years as the qazi or judge, at Tughlaq's court.
Though he finally wanted to settle, the sultan of Morocco ordered him to go the Muslim state of Mali in West Africa, crossing the terrible Sahara Desert.Here he stayed for two years, before reaching Morocco again in 1352, and hen vanished from history until his death (1368/9). His account of his travels is the main source of the history and geography of much of the Muslim world in the Middle Ages
Ibn Battuta Travels
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