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The Sheikh Ibn Batuta, the author of these travels, left his native city, Tanjiers, for the purpose of performing the pilgrimage in the 725th year of the Hejira (A.D. 1324-5).
Over a period of thirty years from 1325 to 1354, Ibn Battuta visited most of North Africa, the Middle East, East Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, China, the Iberian Peninsula, and West Africa.
The travels of Ibn Batuta : translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge. with notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work
Ibn Battuta travels overland from Algiers to Tunis pp. 43-45. On reaching al-Jaza'ir [Algiers] we halted outside the town for a few days, until the former party rejoined us, when we went on together through the Mitija [the fertile plain behind Algiers] to the mountain of Oaks [Jurjura] and so reached Bijaya [Bougiel.
1. Introduction: https://orias.berkeley.edu/resources-teachers/travels-ibn-battuta. In 1325 C.E., when he was just 20 years old, Ibn Battuta began to travel. What was his main reason for travelling? How many miles and how many different countries had he visited over his journeys? What is meant by the term “Dar al-Islam?” 2.
Selections from the earlier portions of Ibn Batuta's journeys, across North Africa, Syria, and Arabia. Ibn Battuta. Excerpts from Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354 , translated and edited by H.A.R. Gibb.
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