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Ibn Battuta served as a qadi or judge for six years during Muhammad bin Tughluq's reign. Muhammad bin Tughluq was renowned as the wealthiest man in the Muslim world at that time. He patronized various scholars, Sufis, qadis , viziers , and other functionaries in order to consolidate his rule.
Ibn Battuta, medieval Muslim traveler and author of one of the most famous travel books, the Rihlah. His great work describes the people, places, and cultures he encountered in his journeys along some 75,000 miles (120,000 km) across and beyond the Islamic world.
7 lut 2019 · Ibn Battuta (l. 1304-1368/69) was a Moroccan Explorer from Tangiers who traveled more widely than anyone of his day, covering 75,000 miles (120,000 km) between 1325 - c. 1352.
Born in 1304 in the Moroccan port of Tangier, Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta (أبو عبد الله محمد ابن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي ابن بطوطة), known to history simply as Ibn Battuta, was the greatest traveler to ever roam the earth.
His full name was Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta. It may have been a nickname. 'Battuta' means 'duckling'. Ibn Battuta was robbed and kidnapped several times on his journeys.
Muhammad ibn Battuta (1304-c. 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.
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta (1304 to 1368 or 1377, year of death uncertain) was born in Tangier, Morocco during the time of the Merinid Sultanate, which ruled in the Islamic calendar year 703. He was born into a Berber family and was a Sunni Muslim scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school of Fiqh, Islamic law).
