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    Muhammad Ibn Battuta (1304-1377 CE) was a Moroccan traveler and writer. Towards the end of 1332, Ibn Battuta came to India via Afghanistan.

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     Muhammad Ibn Battuta (1304-1377 CE) was a

    Moroccan traveler and writer.


     Also known as Shams ad-Din.
     Born in Tangier in Morocco in 1304 CE.
     Belonged to a family of Qadis (judges) and received an
    education in Islamic law.
     Ibn Battuta was only 21-year-old when he set out on a
    voyage.
     But driven by a spirit of adventure, he didn't return
    home and decided to travel further and explore far
    away foreign lands.
     Over the next 30 years, he would visit North Africa, the
    Horn of Africa, West Africa, the middle east, India,
    central Asia, South-East Asia and Chine before
    returning home in 1354 CE.
     Towards the end of 1332, Ibn Battuta came to India via
    Afghanistan.
     He is said to have crossed the Indus river on 12
    September 1333 CE and made his way to Delhi
     India was then ruled by Muhammad bin Tughluq, then
    considered to the wealthiest man in the Islamic world.
     The Sultan of Delhi, was impressed by his scholarship
    and appointed him as the Qazi or judge of Delhi with a
    salary of 12,000 dinars per year.
     In 1342, he was sent proceed to china as the Sultan’s
    envoy to the Mongol ruler.
     By the time Ibn Battuta arrived in Delhi in the fourteenth
    century, the subcontinent was part of a global network of
    communication that stretched from China in the east to north-
    west Africa and Europe in the west.
     He enjoyed spending time with learned men and rulers, often
    officiating as qazi, and enjoying the cosmopolitan culture of
    urban centers. Anything that was unfamiliar was particularly
    highlighted to impress the readers or listeners.
     The state evidently took special measures to encourage
    merchants.
     All trade routes were well supplied with inns and guest houses.
     He was amazed by the efficiency of the postal system which
    allowed merchants to not only send information and remit credit
    across long distances, but also to dispatch goods required at
    short notice.
     Battuta found the cities in the subcontinent with full of exciting
    opportunities for those who had the necessary drive, resources
    and skills.
     They were densely populated and prosperous. Most cities had
    crowed streets and bright and colorful markets with wide variety
    of goods.
     He describes Delhi as a vast city, with a great population, the
    largest in India.
     The bazaars were not only places of economic transactions, but
    the hub of social and cultural activities.
     Most bazaars had a mosque and a temple and space were marked
    for public performances by dancers, musicians and singers.
     He found Indian agriculture very productive because of the
    fertility of soil.
    Ibn Battuta described a royal meal:
    Bread (in thin round cakes); large slabs of meat (sheep);
    Meat cooked with ghee, onions and green ginger;
    Rice cooked in ghee with chicken on top;
    “Sambusak" (triangular pastries made of hashed meat
    and cooked with almonds, walnuts, pistachios, onions,
    and spices put inside a piece of thin bread fried in ghee -
    also known as "samosas");
    Sweetcakes and sweetmeats (pastries) for dessert;
    They drank sherbet of sugared water before the meal
    and barley-water after.
    These are samosas or as Ibn Battuta called
    them – ‘sambusak’.
    These are betel leaves for sale at a modern
    market. They are still grown and chewed
    (along with areca nuts).
     After he returned home, the Marinid
    ruler of Morocco, Abu Inan Faris,
    persuaded him to document his travel
    experience.
     Ibn Battuta dictated an account of his
    journeys to a scholar named Ibn
    Juzayy
     A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the
    Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of
    Travelling, but is often simply referred
    to as the Rihla, or "Journey".
     Fictional in places, the Rihla still gives
    as complete an account as exists of
    some parts of the world in the 14th
    century.
    “Traveling—it
    leaves you speechless,
    then turns you into a
    storyteller.”
    ― Ibn Battuta

    The travels of Ibn Battutah

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