莱昂·贝内特（Léon Benett，1839–1916），1878年为儒勒·凡尔纳著作所作插画《伊本·白图泰在埃及》（原画为后世想象，非14世纪同时代肖像） · Public domain
24 or 25 February 1304–1368 or 1369 (uncertain)
Ibn Battuta, full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta, Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن بطوطة
Ibn Battuta · 摩洛哥
1304–c. 1368/1369, Moroccan traveller and jurist, author of the *Rihla* (*Travels*).
Born in Tangier into a family of jurists, he left home in 1325 at 21 for the Hajj to Mecca, and over about thirty years thereafter travelled about 120,000 kilometres, covering North Africa, the Middle East, East Africa, India, the Maldives, Southeast Asia, and China, among other places, and served as a judge (qadi); around 1354 he returned to Morocco and dictated his travels at the Fez court, which Ibn Juzayy compiled into a book; his year of death has two accounts, 1368/1369 and 1377, uncertain.
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Born in Tangier; place of later activity and death Fez.
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One of the most widely travelled recorders of the pre-modern world; the *Rihla* is a first-hand source for studying 14th-century Islamic world cities, courts, trade, and customs.
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