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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).
Ibn Battuta (born February 24, 1304, Tangier, Morocco—died 1368/69 or 1377, Morocco) was the greatest medieval Muslim traveler and the author of one of the most famous travel books, the Riḥlah (Travels).
4 details of Morocco, Russia, India, China, and elsewhere. The ultimate in real life adventure stories. — History in Review. The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354 H.A.R. Gibb,2017-07-05 Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304.
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.
Ibn Battúta, Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325–1354. Ibn Batuta, H. Gibb. Published in Nature 1 December 1983. History. Abstract“THE Broadway Travellers” offers to the public in popular form a store of entertaining reading as well as a series of valuable records, many of which are not otherwise readily available.
Ibn Battuta traveled to Black Africa twice: in 1331 to the East Coast and in 1351-1352 from Morocco down the Sahara to the Niger. He reported about the wealthy, multicultural trading centers at the African East Coast, especially Mombasa and Kilwa.
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
