OLLIE: Who shall we look up today? FATIMA: My grandmother told me about this amazing explorer, Ibn Battuta. He was a Moroccan explorer from way, way back; the 1300s, I think. Can we look him up? OLLIE ...

It has taken a long time, but the wheels of life quietly came a full circle for American historian Ross E Dunn on his visit to the Mishal mosque in Kozhikode. Earlier, a missed trip to Tughlaqabad, on ...

The full name of Ibn Battuta was Muhammad Ibn Battuta (a Moroccan Muslim voyage). He was born on February 25, 1304 in medieval era in Islamic family. By profession he was a Geographer, Jurist, Judge ...

A visit in February 2018 to India’s Kozhikode (Calicut) – an important town in the itinerary of celebrity traveler Ibn Battuta – inspired American historian Ross Dunn to look back on the lives and ...

We all know about Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, and Lewis and Clark, but many people haven’t heard of Ibn Battuta, a medieval Muslim scholar who traveled more than 75,000 miles across the world.

Voyager’s desire to see the world was matched by his finesse in deal-making with his hosts Abu Abdullah Mohammad Bin Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta (1304-1369) is probably one of the greatest ...

Travel across vast swathes of land was a necessary part of life in the Middle East during the Middle Ages. Trade was a primary motivation; so too were religious pilgrimage and proselytisation, and in ...

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