Ibn Battuta, was born in Tangier, Morocco, on February 24, 1304. From a statement in his celebrated travel book the Rihla (“legal affairs are my ancestral profession,”) he evidently came from an ...
The title of his book is a bit of a mouthful, so the text is generally just called Ibn Battuta's Rihla, meaning journey. Ibn Battuta’s journeys lasted for a period of almost thirty years, covering ...