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Jul 20, 2017 · Home. Topics. Middle Ages. Why Moroccan Scholar Ibn Battuta May Be the Greatest Explorer of all Time. In the 14th century, the Moroccan wanderer Ibn Battuta spent nearly 30 years traveling...
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.
By Cynthia Stokes Brown. The account of the travels of the Muslim legal scholar Ibn Battuta in the first half of the 14th century reveals the wide scope of the Muslim world at that time. The Abode of Islam.
Ibn Battuta started on his travels in 1325, when he was 20 years old. His main reason to travel was to go on a Hajj, or a Pilgrimage to Mecca, to fulfill the fifth pillar of Isla.. But his traveling went on for around 29 years and he covered about 75,000 miles visiting the equivalent of 44 modern countries which were then mostly under the ...
Apr 3, 2019 · Born in 1304 in Tangier, Morocco, Ibn Battuta claimed to have journeyed through what we now call North Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, India, and China, visiting areas that today make...
For the full article, see Ibn Battuta . 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. After a ...
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta (1304 to 1368 or 1377, year of death uncertain) was born in Tangier, Morocco during the time of the Merinid Sultanate, which ruled in the Islamic calendar year 703. He was born into a Berber family and was a Sunni Muslim scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school of Fiqh, Islamic law).
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