(Muhammad) Ibn Battuta was one of the great travellers and travel writers of pre-modern times. His extraordinary journeys, which spanned three decades, took him to almost the entirety of the Islamic ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a casual conversation in 2019, Ameena Hussein told me that she was writing a book on Ibn Battuta, the well-known Moroccan traveller and scholar of Islam who lived between 1304 and 1369. I was ...

A visit in February 2018 to India’s Kozhikode (Calicut) – an important town in the itinerary of celebrity traveler Ibn Battuta – inspired American historian Ross Dunn to look back on the lives and ...