The title of his book is a bit of a mouthful, so the text is generally just called Ibn Battuta's Rihla, meaning journey. Ibn Battuta’s journeys lasted for a period of almost thirty years, covering ...

We all know about Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, and Lewis and Clark, but many people haven’t heard of Ibn Battuta, a medieval Muslim scholar who traveled more than 75,000 miles across the world.

In our guides to the classics, experts explain key literary works. Ibn Battuta, was born in Tangier, Morocco, on February 24, 1304. From a statement in his celebrated travel book the Rihla (“legal ...

It has taken a long time, but the wheels of life quietly came a full circle for American historian Ross E Dunn on his visit to the Mishal mosque in Kozhikode. Earlier, a missed trip to Tughlaqabad, on ...

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 1300s, I think. Can we look him up? OLLIE ...

Voyager’s desire to see the world was matched by his finesse in deal-making with his hosts Abu Abdullah Mohammad Bin Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta (1304-1369) is probably one of the greatest ...

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 an ...