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Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī (/ ˌ ɪ b ən b æ t ˈ t uː t ɑː /; 24 February 1304 – 1368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar.
Jul 6, 2024 · Ibn Battuta, medieval Muslim traveler and author of one of the most famous travel books, the Rihlah. His great work describes the people, places, and cultures he encountered in his journeys along some 75,000 miles (120,000 km) across and beyond the Islamic world.
Feb 7, 2019 · Ibn Battuta (l. 1304-1368/69) was a Moroccan explorer from Tangier whose expeditions took him further than any other traveler of his time and resulted in his famous work, The Rihla of Ibn Battuta. Scholar...
Jul 20, 2017 · Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta allegedly spent nearly 30 years wandering some 75,000 miles across Africa, the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia.
The Abode of Islam. During the life of Ibn Battuta (sometimes spelled Battutah), Islamic civilization stretched from the Atlantic coast of West Africa across northern Africa, the Middle East, and India to Southeast Asia. This constituted the Dar al-Islam, or “Abode of Islam.”
KS1. Who was Ibn Battuta? Part of History Explorers Year 1 Year 2. Save to My Bitesize. Remove from My Bitesize. This is Ibn Battuta. He was an explorer over 700 years ago. He travelled in the...
Sep 28, 2018 · Ibn Battuta (1304–1368) was a scholar, theologian, adventurer, and traveler who, like Marco Polo fifty years earlier, wandered the world and wrote about it. Battuta sailed, rode camels and horses, and walked his way to 44 different modern countries, traveling an estimated 75,000 miles during a 29 year period.
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta, better known by his surname Ibn Battuta, was a great Medieval traveler and explorer. He is often compared to Marco Polo, who died a year before Ibn Battuta left home. But unlike Polo, Ibn Battuta traveled mostly to and within Muslim regions.
Ibn Baṭṭūṭah , orig. Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Lawātī al-Ṭanjī ibn Baṭṭūṭah, (born Feb. 24, 1304, Tangier, Mor.—died 1368/69 or 1377, Morocco), Noted Arab traveler and writer. He received a traditional juristic and literary education in Tangier.
Travels, classic travel account by Ibn Baṭṭūṭah of his journeys through virtually all Muslim countries and many adjacent lands. The full title means “The Gift of the Beholders on the Peculiarities of the Regions and the Marvels of Journeys.”
