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	Ibn-Battuta
		Ibn Battutas Reise nach Mekka erfolgte auf dem Landweg entlang der nordafrikanischen Küste, bis er über Alexandria Kairo erreichte.
		Ibn Battuta reiste eine Zeitlang mit der königlichen Karawane und wandte sich dann Richtung Norden nach Täbris an der Seidenstraße.
		Ibn Battuta behauptete außerdem, noch weiter in den Norden, durch den Großen Kanal (Da Yunhe) nach Peking gereist zu sein, was jedoch allgemein als Erfindung betrachtet wird.
	www.battuta-reisen.de /ibn-battuta.htm (2078 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ibn Battuta
		Ibn Battuta is a small lunar crater on the Mare Fecunditatis, a lunar mare in the eastern part of the Moons near side.
		Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier, Morocco in 1304 C.E. (703 A.H.),during the time of Merinid Sultanate rule, into a Berber family.
		Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier, Morocco some time between 1304 and 1307, during the time of Merinid Sultanate rule in the Islamic calendar year 703, into a Berber family.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ibn-Battuta (1044 words)

	Ibn Battuta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد ابن بطوطة) (born February 24, 1304; year of death uncertain, possibly 1368 or 1377) was a Moroccan Berber Sunni Islamic scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school of Fiqh, or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a Qadi or judge.
		Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier, Morocco some time between 1304 and 1307, during the time of Merinid Sultanate rule in the Islamic calendar year 703, into a Berber family.
		Alfonso XI of Castile was threatening the conquest of Gibraltar, and Ibn Battuta joined up with a group of Muslims leaving Tangier with the intention of defending the port.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ibn_Battuta (2414 words)

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		Crossing the Black Sea, Ibn Battuta landed in Kaffa, in the Crimea, and entered the lands of the Golden Horde.
		On the strength of his years of studies while in Makkah, Ibn Battuta was employed as a qadi ("judge") by the Sultan Muhammed Tuguluq.
		The Sultan was erratic even by the standards of the time, and Ibn Battuta veered between living the high life of a trusted subordinate, and being under suspicion for a variety of reasons.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/i/ib/ibn_battuta.html (2106 words)

	AlShindagah Online
		Ibn Battuta was a North African Arab born in Tangier, Morocco in 1304.
		Ibn Battuta married the girl in Tripoli, but soon the marriage was broken because of a quarrel between Ibn Battuta and his new father-in-law.
		Perhaps, Ibn Juzayy has added a little fiction from time to time for the purpose of entertainment and easy communication, but on the whole he is believed to have strictly followed Ibn Battuta’s narrative.
	www.alshindagah.com /mayjun2003/ibn.html (0 words)

	ISLAMIC CULTURE FOUNDATION » Archives » Ibn Battuta in India
		Ibn Battuta was born in 1304 in the Moroccan town of Tangier (hence his surname “al-Tanji”—”the Tangerine”) into a family of qadis, Islamic judges.
		Ibn Battuta, quoting an eye-witness, wrote that it occurred when a wooden pavilion collapsed on top of him, and that this collapse was deliberately triggered by elephants on the orders of Tughluq’s son and heir, Muhammad.
		Ibn Battuta had left another annoyingly vague address: “Outside Delhi, near the hospice of Shaykh Nizam al-Din.” The problem was that over the centuries the landscape of Delhi had been continually eroded, and the sort of rocky outcrops where one might find caves had been quarried away long ago.
	www.funci.org /en/2006/articles/ibn-battuta-in-india (0 words)

	Ibn Battuta on the East African Coast
		Battuta noted that the people of Mogadishu ate as much as a whole group from Arabia, and they were "extremely large and fat of body." During the three days that they were the guest of the Sultan, they were fed thrice daily.
		Battuta described the procession that accompanied the Sultan from the mosque to his house, which was nearby.
		Battuta named four "sharifs" of Hijaz whom he met during his trip while they were visiting or en route to visit the sultan of Kilwa: Muhammed ibn Jammaz, Mansur bin Lubaida bin Abu Numayy, Muhammed bin Shumaila bin Abu Numayy, and Yabl bin Kubaish bin Jammaz.
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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Ibn Battuta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta (Tangier, Morocco, February 24 1304 - 1377) was a Moroccan Berber traveller and explorer.
		Born in Tangier, Morocco some time between 1304 and 1307, at the age of (approximately) twenty Ibn Battuta went on a hajj – a pilgrimage to Mecca.
		Tughluq was erratic even by the standards of the time, and Ibn Battuta veered between living the high life of a trusted subordinate, and being under suspicion for a variety of reasons.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Ibn_Battuta (2221 words)

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		Ibn Battuta's sea voyages and references to shipping reveal that the Muslims completely dominated the maritime activity of the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Chinese waters.
		Ibn Battuta, one of the most remarkable travellers of all time, visited China sixty years after Marco Polo and in fact travelled 75,000 miles, much more than Marco Polo.
		Ibn Battuta's contribution to geography is unquestionably as great as that of any geographer yet the accounts of his travels are not easily accessible except to the specialist.
	www.khobartocape.com /ibnbattuta.htm (1340 words)

	Ibn Battuta on the Web
		Overviews long and short can be found in Ibn Battuta and His Travels.
		In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta highlights moderns who chose to follow part of Ibn Battuta's path.
		Ibn Battuta is also sometimes spelled Ibn Batuta, Ibn Battouta and Ibn Battutah.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /ibn-battuta (303 words)

	Muslim American Society
		Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta, more commonly known as Ibn Battuta, is considered to be a leading explorer of the 14th Century.
		Ibn Battuta was known to be a widely traveled person; he was also the only medieval traveler to have seen the lands of every Muslim ruler in his lifetime.
		Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier, Morocco in 1304 C.E. (703 A.H.),during the time of Merinid Sultanate rule, into a Berber family.
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	ibn battuta
		Inoltre Ibn Battuta si erge a difensore della moralità, custode integerrimo della legge coranica raccontando episodi autobiografici in cui rivela invece una buona dose di bigottismo e ristrettezza mentale.
		Ibn Battuta si trovò a viaggiare nel clima della pax mongola quando i nuovi monarchi si convertirono all'Islam ed assorbirono nelle loro corti l'intelligenza musulmana.
		Ibn Battuta, da questo punto di vista, aveva un gran bisogno di viaggiare e pure gli piaceva per cui, con entusiasmo accettò l'invito pregustando il giorno in cui avrebbe portato i saluti del vecchio a chi lo attendeva a distanza di migliaia di chilometri.
	www.puntosufi.it /battuta1.htm (1551 words)

	Ibn Battuta in West Africa
		Battuta described the desert as a place "bright, full of sunshine, one's chest is dilated, the soul finds good in it, it is secure from robbers." He also mentioned many wild cattle that humans could hunt with bows and dogs, but whose meat created thirst and was therefore to be avoided.
		Battuta found him and his wife at home, but his wife was in bed with another man, and the husband seemed to think this was normal.
		Battuta witnessed the arrival in the sultan's court of a faqir from a remote district who told of a plague of locusts that purported to be a response to a great evil in the land.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his311/lectures/17battut.htm (0 words)

	The Adventures of Ibn Battuta. Part 1
		Ibn Battuta was the only medieval traveller who is known to have visited the lands of every Muslim ruler of his time.
		Ibn Battuta was particularly impressed with a maristan (hospital) for its beauty and service to the sick.
		Ibn Battuta continued on his journey and on his way to Jerusalem he visited more holy sites: the tomb of Jonah - over which there is built a great mosque, and Bethlehem where Jesus was born.
	www.islamfortoday.com /ibnbattuta01.htm (0 words)

	Ibn Battuta
		possible that the people Ibn Battuta met were as fascinated by him as he was by them; not many people from what was then considered a land far to the west were such extensive travelers.
		Ibn Battuta may have been the single greatest traveler of premodern times.
		Ibn Battuta was born in a rich family in Tangier, Morocco.
	www.lycos.com /info/ibn-battuta.html (0 words)

	Ibn Battuta
		Ibn Battuta's sea voyages and references to shipping reveal that the Muslims completely dominated the maritime activity of the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Chinese waters.
		Ibn Battuta, one of the most remarkable travellers of all time, visited China sixty years after Marco Polo and in fact travelled 75,000 miles, much more than Marco Polo.
		Ibn Battuta's contribution to geography is unquestionably as great as that of any geographer yet the accounts of his travels are not easily accessible except to the specialist.
	www.ummah.net /history/scholars/ibn_battuta (0 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: Books: Dunn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Battuta's travels through the world were done in a way only someone of his background could do them.
		Ibn Battuta was a twenty one year old scholar of probably modest talent who set out to perform the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and managed to not return home for twenty-four years.
		Ibn Battuta also represents the intellectual thought and how traditional islamic knowledge was taught back then.
	www.amazon.ca /Adventures-Ibn-Battuta-Dunn/dp/0520067436 (1499 words)

	BRIA 18:1 Africa -- The United States and the Barbary Pirates, AIDS in Africa, Ibn Battuta: The Greatest Traveler in ...
		Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in 1304 in Tangier, Morocco, across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain.
		Ibn Battuta reached the Mali capital in the spring of 1352.
		Despite his disappointments, Ibn Battuta was impressed that the Mali people "have a greater hatred of injustice than any other people." He related that the mansa showed little mercy to the guilty.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria18_1.htm (0 words)

	Ibn Battuta & the Kingdom of Jaffna
		Ibn Battuta's record of his visit to Ceylon in 1344 is one of the rare sources of unbiased literary record describing the rulers and life in Ceylon during that period.
		In India Ibn Battuta became the chief judge (Qadi) of Delhi under the patronage of Muhammed bin Tughlaq, served in the courts of the king of Calicut, married into the royal family in the Maldives, and went on a pilgrimage to Adam's Peak in Ceylon.
		In 1341 Ibn Battuta was appointed by the Delhi Sultan to lead a diplomatic mission to the court of the Mongol emperor of China.
	www.sangam.org /taraki/articles/2006/02-26_Ibn_Battuta_Jaffna_Kingdom.php?uid=1547 (0 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Ibn Battuta, Traveler from Tangier
		Ibn Battuta, however, was a theologian, poet and scholar, a humanitarian in an age when life was cheap.
		Ibn Battuta's description of the customs of these islands was the first to reach the outside world.
		Ibn Battuta passed through town after town scourged by the plague, but providentially he escaped infection for had he been stricken, his name would have been soon forgotten.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/196107/ibn.battuta.traveler.from.tangier.htm (0 words)

	Ibn Battuta Mall \| Ibn Battuta Mall Dubai \| Ibn Battuta Shooping Mall UAE
		Ibn Battuta Mall, a Nakheel Project, was conceived to celebrate Dubai's increasing role as one of the world's top shopping destinations.
		Ibn Battuta Mall, which is segmented into six distinct zones, spreads across an area of 5.4 million square feet, including a parking lot that can accommodate more than 5000 cars.
		The Ibn Battuta Mall combines retail, entertainment, restaurants and family activities within a uniquely themed environment that is designed to reflect the unique combination of the various heritages and cosmopolitan lifestyle.
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	Old World Contacts/Diplomats & Other Travellers/Ibn Battuta
		Ibn Battuta spent the next eight years in India, where he worked as a qadi, or judge, in the government of the Sultan of Delhi.
		Although Ibn Battuta was cosmopolitan and generally tolerant of different customs and peoples, his account periodically betrays personal attitudes and biases.
		Marco Polo was essentially exploring regions that were little-known to his fellow Europeans, while Ibn Battuta never strayed far from the world of Islamic culture; a world in which he could always find hospitality and companionship with individuals sharing sensibilities similar to his own.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/oldwrld/diplomats/battuta.html (0 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354
		The fourth of them, as she passed, saw the tent on top of the hill [i.e., Ibn Battuta's tent] with the standard in front of it, which is the mark of a new arrival, and sent pages and maidens to greet me and convey her salutations, herself halting to wait for them.
		Ibn Battuta returns to the steppe kingdom of Uzbeg Khan, from where he journeys on deeper into Central Asia and then to India, Java, and China; he then returns westward and homeward, arriving at the city of Fez in Morocco in November of 1349.
		Ibn Battuta returns to his native Tangiers After I had been privileged to observe this noble majesty and to share in the all-embracing bounty of his beneficence, I set out to visit the tomb of my mother.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/1354-ibnbattuta.html (0 words)

	GBN: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
		Gentleman, pilgrim, jurist, raconteur, world traveler, and guest of amirs and khans, Ibn Battuta had good reason to think he was just the sort of public servant Muhammad Tughluq [the Sultan of Delhi] was looking for.
		Ibn Battuta is often compared to Marco Polo, but he traveled to and reports upon many more places than the Venetian, and offers details on all aspects of human life, from royal ceremonies in Delhi to the sexual customs of Maldive Island women.
		Ibn Battuta had learned by experience that Muslim rulers whose kingdoms lay in the outer periphery of the Dar al-Islam were always avid to attract the services of 'ulama with previous links to the great cities and colleges of the central lands.
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	Ibn Battuta -- A pioneering 14th century geographer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ibn Battuta began exploring areas in present day southern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in 1325 when he was 21 years old.
		Battuta recorded his travels in the Rihla, and was an early and extensive contributor to the field of geography.
		To learn more about Ibn Battuta, visit a site prepared by Nick Bartel, a teacher at the Horace Mann Middle School in San Francisco.
	dg.statlab.iastate.edu /dg/ibn_battuta (142 words)

	IBN BATTUTA - THE GREAT ARAB EXPLORER - Athenaeum Library of Philosophy
		The Rihla is an account of Ibn Battuta's travels that took him from Tangiers through North Africa, Syria, Iraq, Iran, reaching India in 1325.
		We find Ibn Battuta in Mecca where he spent two year (728-730 h), living piously in the company of devout men.
		In this work we will now follow Ibn Battuta on his way to Cairo, where we not only gain an excellent first impression of Cairo, but we also learn a great deal about the historical, economic, social, political, ecological, and technological characteristics of the city.
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	Ibn Battuta - Rihla
		Ibn Battuta started on his travels when he was 20 years old in 1325.
		Ibn Battuta mainly traveled in the area surrounded by the green line - countries with Muslim governments.
		Ibn Battuta would seldom be far from fellow Muslims on his travels, and he would greatly benefit from the charity and hospitality offered to Muslim travelers and pilgrims.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Ibn_Battuta_Rihla.html (0 words)

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