Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta

Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah (Arabic: أَبُو عَبْد الله مُحَمَّد اِبْن عَبْد الله اللَّوَاتِيّ الطَّنْجِيّ اِبْن بَطُّوطَة, romanized: ʾAbū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Lawātiyy aṭ-Ṭanjiyy ibn Baṭṭūṭah, ; 24 February 1304 – 1368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Berber Maghrebi scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia, largely in the Muslim world. He travelled more than any other explorer in pre-modern history, totalling around 117,000 km (73,000 mi), surpassing Zheng He with about 50,000 km (31,000 mi) and Marco Polo with 24,000 km (15,000 mi). Over a period of thirty years, Ibn Battuta visited most of southern Eurasia, including Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, China, and the Iberian Peninsula. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Battuta has received more than 4,286,689 page views. His biography is available in 127 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 125 in 2019). Ibn Battuta is the 8th most popular explorer (up from 10th 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.