Ibn battuta was a traveler from North Africa, who traveled more than anybody of his time, even Marco Polo.
In 1325, Ibn Battuta, a 21-year-old jurist, left his home in Tangier on a
Hajj, to Mecca as all good Muslims should do (p1). It was 29 years before he arrived home
again, after travelling further than any known traveller before him: from Mali to China, from
Russia to Zanzibar, with his years as legal adviser to the Sultan of Delhi the crowning
achievement of his career. His account of his journeys was written in old age …
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…a political history of the
great part of the Muslim world. His character was outward. Being an extrovert, he would always
make friends wherever he went. And such friends tended to be people in high places, like kings,
sultans and princes, governors and dignitaries. He was an intellectual man who wanted to
experience different cultures, but one gets the feeling that he was as much a contributor to these
countries as he was a learner.
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