In our guides to the classics, experts explain key literary works. Ibn Battuta, was born in Tangier, Morocco, on February 24, ...

"It seems Ibn Battuta arrived during the winter, because he said Kalba had rivers and green meadows. He saw green trees and a flowing valley – it was vast and it's a place with a lot of water.

Book Review  by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Soon after I finished Ameena Hussein’s book about Ibn Battuta’s pilgrimage, I opened ...

Ibn Battuta can quickly scout the surrounding areas, pick out the absolute best settling spots with plenty of vegetation, and then use the early Discoveries to get a quick boost to the start of ...

Looking at the world Ibn Battuta travelled in, Dunn says it was indeed a small world. There are mentions of meetings with several persons, travellers like him, whom he had met earlier in other cities.

Ibn Battuta in 1325 Another Hajj pilgrim, who travelled two centuries later, was Ibn Battuta , a Moroccan jurist and one of the most famous travellers in the medieval world.

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Ibn Battuta, was born in Tangier, Morocco, on February 24, 1304. From a statement in his celebrated travel book the Rihla (“legal affairs are my ancestral profession,”) he evidently came from ...