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Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta was a Maghrebi Muslim traveller, explorer and scholar from Tangier. Over a period of 30 years from 1325 to 1354, he visited much of Africa, Asia, and the Iberian Peninsula. Near the end of his life, Ibn Battuta dictated an account of his journeys, titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling, commonly known as The Rihla. Ibn Battuta travell…
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culture · Maghrebi traveller and scholar (1304–1368/1369) · explorer · geographer · writer · cartographer · qadi · merchant · Islamic jurist · also Ibn Battuta, Ibn Battouta, Muhammad ibn Abdullah Ibn Battuta, Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Lawātī al-Ṭanji, Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbdallâh Ibn Baṭṭûṭa
Born 24 February 1304 · Died 1368 · Q7331
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2026· 7 entries
tbreak.com: Benihana Signature Dubai: live teppanyaki opens at Oaks Ibn Battuta Gate
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2025· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Ibn Battuta : le voyageur de l'Islam = The traveler of Islam = El viajero del Islam, 1304-1377 / ed., Jordi Savall
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Yahoo News Australia: Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century judge and ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his adventures
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2021· 1 entry
Al Bawaba News: Follow The Travels of Ibn Battuta and Get Tourism Moving!
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2019· 1 entry
Mental Floss: Ibn Battuta, One of the Greatest Travelers of All Time
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2018· 1 entry
The Hindu: Ibn Battuta’s tryst with Malabar
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2015· 1 entry
jagranjosh.com: Ibn Battuta’s Memoir on Tughlaq Dynasty
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2010· 1 entry
Tim Mackintosh-Smith completed a multi-volume field study in dozens of the locales mentioned in the Rihla, in which he reports on previously unknown manuscripts of Islamic law kept in the archives of Al-Azhar University
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1992· 1 entry
“Once there arrived in Delhi some female infidel captives, ten of whom the Vazir sent to me. I gave one of them to the man who had brought them… My companion took three young girls, and I do not know what happened to the rest.”
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1971· 1 entry
Having completed the first three volumes
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1929· 1 entry
Exactly a century after the publication of Lee's translation, the historian and orientalist Hamilton Gibb published an English translation of selected portions of Defrémery and Sanguinetti's Arabic text
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1922· 1 entry
That he should prepare an annotated translation of the entire Rihla into English
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1853· 1 entry
Published a series of four volumes containing a critical edition of the Arabic text together with a translation into French
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1843· 1 entry
By the Irish-French orientalist Baron de Slane to produce a translation into French of Ibn Battuta's visit to the Sudan
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1818· 1 entry
By the German Orientalist Johann Kosegarten
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1368· 3 entries
“The inhabitants of Habanq are infidels under protection (zimma) from whom half of the crops which they produce is taken; besides they have to perform certain duties” (p. 241).”
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“[The presents sent by Muhammad bin Tughluq to the Emperor of China included] ‘one hundred male slaves and one hundred slave song- stresses and dancers from among the Indian infidels” (p. 151).”
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Died 1368.
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1304· 1 entry
Born 1304-02-24.
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