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Ibn Baṭṭūṭa

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Luwāti al-Ṭanjī (1304–1368/703–769)

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Synonyms

Ibn Battutah; Ibn Batuta; Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṭanjī

Definition

The greatest medieval Barbari Moroccan traveler who launched his long temporal and spatial journey to cover tens of countries in the three continents, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Morocco to China. He completed the retelling of his personal and historical experience to the official secretary, Ibn Juzayy, in 1354/755, and the travelogue entitled Tuḥfat al-Naẓẓār fī-Gharā’ib al-Amṣār wa-ʿAjā’ib al-Asfār (A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling) was fully edited in 1355.

Historiography

Scholars have different views concerning the materials used in the book, popularly known as Journeys or Travels (riḥla, jawla, or safar), focusing on whether Ibn Battuta kept any record which forms the major parts of the Journeys. Obviously its official editor, Ibn Juzayy acknowledges in his concluding remarks to the book “Here ends the narrative which I have abridged from the explanatory...

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  1. Historical Studies Program, University of Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam

    Iik A. Mansurnoor

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  1. Pomona College Religious Studies, Claremont, CA, USA

    Zayn R. Kassam

  2. Rollins College Jewish Studies Program, Winter Park, FL, USA

    Yudit Kornberg Greenberg

  3. World Zoroastrian Organization, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Jehan Bagli

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Mansurnoor, I.A. (2018). Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. In: Kassam, Z.R., Greenberg, Y.K., Bagli, J. (eds) Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_1985

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