"Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." 

Ibn Battuta

Hello, my name is Ibn Battuta, I am a Muslim explorer that traveled all over the world, traveling over 75,000 miles in my lifetime. I was born here in Tangier, Morocco on February 25th, 1304.

While growing up, I got a leg up because a lot of  my family members were Qadi (a religious judge in the Islam Faith) and legal scholars. Since my family was elite, I was able to get extra schooling past the age of 12 specifically on the Qur'an, the sacred book of Islam. Later this extra teaching would help me pay for my adventures.

My First Journey would be in 1325 when I was 21. I would be journeying on my religious pilgrimage to Mecca, also known as my hajj. I joined a caravan which would travel through North Africa then going to Cairo, Egypt, where I learned from famous scholars to help broaden my learning about Islam. The caravan then crossed the Red Sea into Palestine to then head to Syria and Hejaz, where I also was able to broaden my learning about Islam. M<y caravan then crossed the Arabian Desert, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Iran with leading into Baghdad, Iran, where I would meet the last of the Mongol Khans in Iran, who was named Abu Sa'id. From here we were straight into Mecca were I would spend 3 years leading a quiet life of a devotee, which wouldn't suit me and would bring me to traveling again. On this journey though, I had learned something. I wanted to travel the world to learn about all the different places of the world. I would travel for my love for it.

My second journey started in 1330, my journey would begin when I get to Jeddah. It would be here where I board  a boat that will travel me through the Red Sea down to Yemen, which I would cross until Aden, Yemen where I would board a second boat. This boat would take me along the eastern coast of Africa to many trading towns such as Kilwa, Tanzania. I would then sail along the coast of Arabia, hitting places as Oman and Persia, until I would hit the Persian Gulf and  land in Eastern Arabia to travel by foot back to Mecca, in which I would arrive to in 1332.

My third Journey began because I wanted to meet the Sultan of Delhi, Muḥammad ibn Tughluq, who I had heard great things about. This journey started with me going back through Syria and Egypt, due to a lack of communication. I then got on a boat to cross the Mediterranean Sea in Latakia, Syria to go to Antalya, Turkey. Here I was able to see what happened between the end of the Seljuq power and the rise of the House of Ottoman. From here Traveled over the Black Sea, and then down to Constantinople, the capitol of the Byzantine Empire. I then saw the affects of the Mongol invasions in towns such as Bukhara, Samarkand, and Balkh. This then brought me to a complicated route through Khorasan and Afghanistan, but after crossing the Hindu Kush, I'd be in Delhi on September 12, 1333.