As a young man, he would have studied at a Sunni Maliki madhhab ( Islamic jurisprudence school), the dominant form of education in North Africa at that time. His family belonged to a Berber tribe known as the Lawata. Early life A miniature from al-Wasiti's Maqamat of Al-Hariri showing a group of pilgrims on a hajj.Īll that is known about Ibn Battuta's life comes from the autobiographical information included in the account of his travels, which records that he was of Berber descent, born into a family of Islamic legal scholars in Tangier, known as qadis in the Muslim tradition in Morocco, on 24 February 1304, during the reign of the Marinid dynasty. In his travelogue, the Rihla, he gives his full name as Shams al-Din Abu’Abdallah Muhammad ibn’Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf Lawati al- Tanji ibn Battuta. His most common full name is given as Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta. Ibn Battuta is a patronymic literally meaning "son of the duckling". There have been doubts over the historicity of some of Ibn Battuta's travels, particularly as they reach farther East. ![]() Ibn Battuta travelled more than any other explorer in pre-modern history, totalling around 117,000 km (73,000 mi), surpassing Zheng He with about 50,000 km (31,000 mi) and Marco Polo with 24,000 km (15,000 mi). 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. Over a period of thirty years from 1325 to 1354, Ibn Battuta visited most of North Africa, the Middle East, East Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, China, the Iberian Peninsula, and West Africa. Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibraḥim ibn Muḥammad ibn YusufĪbu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah ( / 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.
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