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Ibn Battūtah
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Ibn Battūtah (1304-1369?), Arab traveler and author, whose book Rihlah (Travels) is an important source for the history and geography of the medieval Muslim world. Battūtah was a Berber born in Tangiers. His full name was Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Battūtah. Beginning with his first journey in 1325, a religious pilgrimage to Mecca, he covered some 120,700 km (some 75,000 mi), extending from Spain in the West to China in the East; from Tombouctou in West Africa to the steppes of Russia. His book includes descriptions of the Byzantine court of Constantinople (present-day İstanbul) and the Black Death of Baghdād (1348).
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