Ibn Battuta (w3445)
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- Description: Born Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Lawati al-Tanji ibn Battuta on 24 February 1304 in Tangier, Morocco, Ibn Battuta was a Berber Muslim scholar, jurist and explorer, widely considered the greatest traveller of the pre-modern world. On 14 June 1325, aged 21, he departed Tangier on what he intended as a hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. He never stopped travelling. Over the following 29 years he covered approximately 120,000 km (75,000 miles) - a distance unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the steam age some 450 years later - visiting the equivalent of 44 modern countries across North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. His journeys took him through Morocco, Egypt, the Levant, Persia, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, Anatolia, the Black Sea, the Golden Horde, Central Asia, India - where he served as a qadi in Delhi for seven years under Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq - the Maldives, China, the Sahara and Mali. He never visited the same place twice if he could avoid it. Between 1352 and 1355, at the request of the Sultan of Morocco, he dictated his memoirs to the scholar Ibn Juzay al-Kalbi, who compiled them into the Rihla - formally titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling - the most detailed account of the medieval world produced by a single observer. Modern scholars note that some sections, particularly those concerning China, may have been embellished or drawn from other sources
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Morocco, Marocco, Maroc
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331
