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Background #1S 1
• Born in Tangier, Morocco in 1304 C.E.• Began at age 21• Traveled all over the world• Traveled total distance of about 75,000 miles• Wrote journals recounting his travels
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Travels #1Q 2
• “In the course of his first Journey, Ibn Battuta travelled through Algiers, Tunis, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria.”
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Travels #1S 2
• Visited many places (see 1st notecard) he then performed his first Hajj
• Then traveled over sea to Yemen, visited Aden and set sail to East Africa
• Then he returned to Mecca to perform his 2nd Hajj
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Travels #1S 2
• Set out for India, but changed his mind and went back to Cairo, Palestine, and Syria instead
• Traveled to Black Sea and crossed it• Eventually reached Constantinople through
the Southern Ukraine
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Travels #1P 2-3
• Went to Khurasan through Khiva and visited Bukhara, Balkh, Heart, Tus, Mashhad, and Nishapur.
• Crossed Hindukush mountains into Afghanistan and later into India
• Travelled through India until he reached Delhi• Stayed in Delhi for several years with Sultan
Mohammad Tughlaq
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Travels #1P 3
• The Saltan sent Ibn Battuta to be his envoy to China
• Travelled through India he took a ship to Goa (India)
• Eventually reached Maldive islands and then Ceylon
• Landed on the Ma’bar coast and he set sail for Bengal (in China during that time)
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Travels #1P 3
• Sailing along the Malabar coast he reached the Maldive islands, and then Canton
• In China he went north east to Dhafari, Muscat, Paris (in Iran), Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt
• Then made his 7th and final Hajj in 1348 CE• Returned to his hometown of Fez• Later traveled to Muslim Spain and the Niger
region
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Impact 1Q&S 2-3
• “The variety and expenditure of the religious endowments at Damascus are beyond computation”
• Writes about cultures and structure of different society’s and analyses them
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Impact #1P 5
• His writings about sea voyages and shipping help show the Muslim’s domination on the waters of the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, and the Chinese waters.
• Showed that in Muslim society Christians were slightly restricted but overall were not treated to unfairly
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Impact #1S 5-6
• Ibn Battuta traveled over 75,000 miles, much more than Marco Polo
• However he is rarely mentioned in textbooks• One of the greatest contributors to geographic
study• But his work is not very easy to access by the
average person
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Background #2S 8
• Traveled for 29 years throughout the Middle East and Asia
• Crossed multiple continents• Tripled the travels of Marco Polo (traveled
75,000 miles)• Through 44 countries
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Travels #2Q 8
• “I left Tangier, my birthplace, the 13th of June 1325 with the intention of making the Pilgrimage to [Mecca]… to leave all my friends both female and male, to abandon my home as birds abandon their nests.”
• Ibn Battuta writings about leaving his home to travel
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Travels #2Q 9
• “An unattractive village… the water is brackish and the place is plagued with flies.”
• Ibn Battuta descibes one Saharan town in a very negative tone
• Even though one might think he would have grown accustomed to this throughout his years of travel
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Travels #2P 9
• Ibn Battuta did not always enjoy traveling (see last card)
• He always found the richest and most powerful Muslims in a community to provide him with clean accommodations
• In return he would tell his stories and speak of his life
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Travels #2S 10
• While in the village of Fuwa Ibn Battuta had an odd dream
• He dreamed he was “on the wing of a huge bird… which flew in the direction of [Mecca], then made toward the Yemen.”
• Woke up and found that the town mystic knew of his dream
• Decided to follow the dream and went to Mecca