Biography of ibn battuta
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OLLIE: Who shall we look up today?
FATIMA: My grandmother told me about this amazing explorer, Ibn Battuta. He was a Moroccan explorer from way, way back; the s, I think. Can we look him up?
OLLIE: Sounds great. Holo-Lab, let’s meet Ibn Battuta.
HOLO-LAB: Searching. Searching… Explorer found. Ibn Battuta.
FATIMA: Wow! Before Henry VIII. Before Guru Nanak.
IBN BATTUTA: As-salamu alaykum!
FATIMA: Alaykumu s-salām. Tell us about the places you’ve explored.
IBN BATTUTA: My journey started when I wanted to undertake the Hajj, a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, to visit the Kaaba, the house of God. I left when I was twenty one, in June
OLLIE: Was it far?
IBN BATTUTA: It was nearly 3, miles as the crow flies, from my home in Tangiers in Morocco, but I had to travel by land. I made a point of never travelling on the same road twice. And because I wanted to explore, I stopped at many wonderful places.
FATIMA: Where did you stop?
IBN BATTUTA: I travelled 2, miles to Alexandri
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Born in in the Moroccan port of Tangier, Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta (أبو عبد الله محمد ابن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي ابن بطوطة), known to history simply as Ibn Battuta, was the greatest traveler to ever roam the earth.
In an era when precious few possessed the means or the courage to submit to curiosity and venture off the map's edge, Ibn Battuta set out as a young man to complete Islam's traditional pilgrimage to Mecca, and ultimately spent the better part of his life wandering.
But Ibn Battuta is known to us today not just because he traveled, but because he recorded for posterity all that he saw along the way.
In nearly 30 years on the road, Ibn Battuta traversed North Africa, Egypt, and the Swahili coast; reached Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula, visiting Palestine and Greater Syria en route; swung through Anatolia and Persia to Afghanistan; crossed the Himalayas to India, then Sri Lanka and the Maldives; and reached the eastern
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Ibn Battuta
Maghrebi traveller and scholar (–/)
For other uses, see Ibn Battuta (disambiguation).
Ibn Battuta (; 24 February &#;&#; /),[a] was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar.[7] Over a period of thirty years from to , Ibn Battuta visited much of Africa, the mittpunkt East, Asia, and the Iberian Peninsula. Near the end of his life, he dictated an account of his journeys, titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling, but commonly known as The Rihla.
Ibn Battuta travelled more than any other explorer in pre-modern history, totalling around ,&#;km (73,&#;mi), surpassing Zheng He with about 50,&#;km (31,&#;mi) and Marco Polo with 24,&#;km (15,&#;mi).[8][10]
Name
"Ibn Battuta" is a patronymic, literally meaning 'son of the duckling'.[11] His most common full name fryst vatten given as AbuAbdullahMuhammad ibn Battuta.[12] In his travelogue, The Rihla, he gives his