Ibn Battuta, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah

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At a glance

Roles: traveler · writer
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region: Maghreb
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ibn Ruzgan, Muhammad ibn Muhammad · Al-Isnawi, Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Hasan · Faraj ibn Qasim ibn Lubb · Ibn al-Ahmar, Isma'il ibn Yusuf · Al-Adfawi, Ja'far ibn Tha'laba

Travel History-writing and social thought

Place in the story

Traveller and observerTradition

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People and things also explored

Muhammad ibn Umar al-Tunisi· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abd al-Razzaq al-Bitar· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu al-Khayr al-Armuni· Ahmad ibn Mustafa ibn al-Khawja· Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi· Al-Akwa', Muhammad ibn Ali

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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People

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Muhammad ibn Umar al-Tunisi

A Tunisian traveller and scholar whose family was spread between Egypt and the Maghrib.