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A good deal of information on the medieval hajj comes from the firsthand observations of three Muslim travelers - Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, and Ibn Battuta - who themselves performed the pilgrimage and recorded detailed accounts. Khusraw performed the hajj in 1050.
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Jan 23, 2012 · information about the route with the writer’s description of and emotional responses to the religious experience of the Hajj. The rihla is thus a category of Arab literature which Ibn Jubayr and, almost a century later, Ibn Battuta brought to its finest flowering.
Jul 28, 2020 · In the 14 th century, Ibn-e-Battuta, a Moroccan Muslim traveler, set out at the age of 21 for the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage. After a year and a half, he reached his destination, visiting North Africa, Egypt, Palestine and Syria along the way.
In 1325, Ibn Battuta was an aspiring Moroccan jurist who set out for Makkah along the North African coast, massing through Cairo and Damascus. But when the rites of the Hajj ended, he didn't go home: He continued east.
Muslim travelers like Ibn Jubayr and Ibn Battuta have recorded detailed accounts of Hajj journeys in medieval times. [34] The caravans followed well-established routes called in Arabic darb al-hajj, lit. "pilgrimage road", which usually followed ancient routes such as the King's Highway.
Journey to Mecca takes us back to 1325, when a young Moroccan law student, the real-life Ibn Battuta who is played by Chems Eddine Zinoun, sets out from Tangier, Morocco and on a 5000 mile journey to Mecca to perform the Hajj pilgrimage.
Ibn Battuta's scanty account of China is one of the great riddles of the Rihla. On his way back to Morocco in 1348, Ibn Battuta encountered history’s greatest pandemic, the Black Death, which affected the Middle East as dramatically as it did Europe.
