Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta

Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī (; 24 February 1304 – 1368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar. Over a period of thirty years from 1325 to 1354, Ibn Battuta visited most of North Africa, the Middle East, East Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, China, the Iberian Peninsula, and West Africa. Near the end of his life, he dictated an account of his journeys, titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling, but commonly known as The Rihla. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Battuta has received more than 4,978,499 page views. His biography is available in 137 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 127 in 2019). Ibn Battuta is the 6th most popular explorer (up from 8th in 2019), the most popular biography from Morocco and the most popular Moroccan Explorer.

Ibn Battuta was a Moroccan traveler and scholar who traveled through North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Africa. He is most famous for his account of his travels in his book Rihla.