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Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد ابن بطوطة‎) (born 24 February 1304 - year of death uncertain, possibly 1368 or 1377 ) was a Moroccan Berber scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school...


Biography

Name: Muhammad ibn Battuta
Birth Date: c. 1304
Death Date: c. 1368
Place of Birth: Tangier, Tangier Province, Morocco
Place of Death: Fez, Morocco
Nationality: Moroccan
Gender: Male
Occupations: traveler

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Biography of Muhammad ibn Battuta
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Muhammad ibn Battuta (1304-ca. 1368) was a Moorish traveler whose extensive voyages as far as Sumatra and China, southern Russia, the Maldives, the East African coast, and Timbuktu made him one of the greatest medieval travelers. Muhammad ibn Battuta...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Ibn Battutah Summary
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(1304–1368/69), Arab traveler and writer. AbuʿAbd Allah Muhammad ibnʿAbd Allah al-Lawati at-Tanji ibn Battutah, one of the greatest travelers of the Middle Ages, spent thirty years visiting every Muslim country of his day and...
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Ibn Battuta Summary
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1304-1368 Arab Traveler In spite of the fact that Marco Polo (1254-1324) is much better known outside the Arab world, in fact Ibn Battuta traveled much more widely. Over the space of 29 years from 1325 to 1354, he covered some 75,000 miles, or about...
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Ibn Battuta Explores the Non-Western World Summary
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Over the space of a quarter-century, the Moroccan journeyer Ibn Battuta (1304-1368) traveled to every civilized portion of the known non-Western world. From Morocco to China, from Russia to Mali, from Spain to Sumatra, he covered a staggering amount...
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Ibn Battuta Information
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Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد ابن بطوطة) (born February 24, 1304; year of death uncertain, possibly 1368 or 1377) was a Moroccan, Berber[1] scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school...


News and Journals
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The Geographical Journal
The Travels of Ibn Battuta AD 1325-1354, vol. 4. (book reviews)
11/01/1997: 459 words, approx. 2 pages
Translated from the Arabic text and edited by C. Defremery and B.R. Sanguinetti. Edited by H.A.R. Gibb and C.F. Beckingham. London: Hakluyt Society, 1994, 212 pp. 30.00 [pounds sterling] (24.00 [pounds sterling] to members). ISBN 0 904180 37 9 This is the fourth...
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The Horn Book Magazine
Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354. (Nonfiction).(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
01/01/2002: 330 words, approx. 1 pages
James Rumford Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354; illus. by the author 40 pp. Houghton 9/01 ISBN 0-618-08366-9 16.00 (Intermediate) "In the days when the earth was flat and Jerusalem was the center of the world, there was a boy named...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ross E. Dunn
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In the following entry, Dunn describes Ibn Battuta's travels in the Iraq-Persia region.
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Critical Essay by Thomas J. Abercrombie
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In the following essay, Abercromie chronicles his own journey following in the footsteps of Ibn Battuta.
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Critical Essay by Marina A. Tolmacheva
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In the following essay, Tolmacheva examines the situation of Islamic women in the fourteenth century through Ibn Battuta's accounts of women's travel.
 


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