the history of ibn battuta

ibn battuta  ws probably the most famous of the early Muslim travellers.On foot and on animal back, he covered about 120,000 kilometers--- the equivalent of three times round the equator.he travelled from spain to china and from central africa to the Russian Steppes.His accounts tell us much  about the muslim world of the 14th century.
He studied law,like the rest of his family,but when he was twenty-one he set off on a
pilgrimage to Makka.on he first journey he went via the red Sea to Makka.on his first journey he went via the red sea to Makka,then syria, Iraq, Khorasan, southern Persia, Azerbijan, and back to baghdad.he settled in Arabia for three years, but then became restless again, and once more set off on a long journey.His travels took him to Jeddah,Yamen, Aden, Tenzania (by boat), south africa, Oman, Hormuz, south Persia, and back to Makkah.His next Journey was to the black sea, crimea, constantinople, russian, steppes,then bukhara, smarkand, khorasan, Afghanistan,hndi kush, and across the indus.By now he was famous and had many friends among rulers,princes,sultans, and emperors.he moved on to delhi, where he met the temperamental king, mohammad bin tughlaq.idn batuta lived in india for several years as the Qazi or judge at Tughlaq cout. he became involed in a war on the malabar coast and was shipwrecked at coromandel. But he sailed on to Maldives and then to Bengal,Assam,Sumatra and china (Beijing). Returning via Sumatra,Baghdad,Syria and Egypt,He made a final pilgrimage to Makka and return to Morocco, again via Egypt and ,Tunisia,Arriving home in 1349. but soon he was on his travels once more, across the straits to Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in spain.
through he finally wantedto settle, the sultan of Morocco ordered him to go to the muslim state of Mali in West Africa, Crossing the Terrible Sahara Desert. Here He Stayed for Two years, Before reaching Morocco again in 1352, and then vanished from history until his death of the history and geography of much of the Muslim in the Middle Ages.

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• the history of ibn battuta