Ibn Battuta

The Moroccan traveller who covered some 120,000 kilometres, from Mali to China, in thirty years.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Set out on hajj at twenty-one and did not return home for nearly three decades.
• Dictated his journeys as the Rihla, the great travel book of the medieval world.
• Served as a qadi in Delhi and the Maldives before writing it all down in Fez.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: 1304 – 1369