Ibn Battuta completes his first pilgrimage

ابن بطوطة يتم حجّته الأولى

1326 CE · 726 AH

Mecca

In 1326 Ibn Battuta completed the pilgrimage, having come through Egypt and Syria with a caravan to Mecca; he then crossed the desert to Iraq.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Arabia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Mecca

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

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Had participant
Ibn Battuta, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah
Occurred at
Mecca

People and things also explored

Journey to Mecca· Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites· The offices of Quraysh at Mecca· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Jahl's plan to crush the Prophet's head with a stone

Sources

  • Ibn Battuta — Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Journey to Mecca

An IMAX docudrama dramatising Ibn Battuta's first pilgrimage in 1325, filmed alongside real modern hajj footage inside the Haram.