Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta was born on 25th February 1304 in Tangier, Morocco, and he died in 1369 (aged 65 years) in Morocco. One of the greatest medieval Muslim travellers and authors of one of the most famous travel books entitled ‘Rihlah’, his work describes his travels covering some 75,000 miles in trips to almost all of the Muslim countries and as far as China and Sumatra. The interiors of the Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, UAE, inaugurated in 2005, are inspired by the travels of Ibn Battuta.
Do you know: Ibn Battuta was appointed the Grand Qazi (Judge) of Delhi by Muhammad Bin Tuglak when he came to India.
