Collection: Ibn Battutah
Muhammad ibn AbdAllah al-Lawati al-Tanji ibn Battutah, also known as “the traveller of Islam”, set as a rule for himself “never to travel any road a second time”. Ibn Battutah is the greatest medieval Muslim traveler and author of one of the most famous travel books, the “Rihlah” (Travels). He travelled some 120,000 km, a figure hardly surpassed by anyone before the age of steam power, in trips to almost all of the Muslim countries and as far as China and Indonesia. Throughout his travels and through his writings, he sheds light on many aspects of the social, cultural, and political history of a great part of the Muslim world.