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His journeys were a showcase of the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age" title="Islamic Golden Age" id="mwCQ">Islamic Golden Age</a>. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" id="mwCg" data-mw='{"autoGenerated":true}'/></section><section data-mw-section-id="1" id="mwCw"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2" id="mwATE"><h2 id="Understand">Understand</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Understand" id="mwATQ">edit</a>]</div> Ibn Battuta came from a family of legal scholars, and he was trained in that field. At age 21, he set out from <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tangier" title="Tangier" id="mwDQ">Tangier</a> for his <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hajj" title="Hajj" id="mwDg">hajj</a>, the pilgrimage to <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca" id="mwDw">Mecca</a>, and continued travelling until his forties, mostly in the Islamic world, India and <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Imperial_China" title="Imperial China" id="mwEA">imperial China</a>. He documented his journeys in the Rihla – always with the definite article, because rihla is a generic <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Arabic_phrasebook" title="Arabic phrasebook" id="mwFA">Arabic</a> word for a travelogue. However, many scholars are uncertain if he visited all of the places mentioned in the Rihla or whether he based some of his descriptions on hearsay, and whether he visited them in the order provided in the book. The University of California Berkeley has a good <a rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" href="http://orias.berkeley.edu/resources-teachers/travels-ibn-battuta" class="external text" id="mwFw">online account</a> of Ibn Battuta's travels. Our text below is based on that. </section><section data-mw-section-id="2" id="mwGA"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2" id="mwATc"><h2 id="Destinations">Destinations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Destinations" id="mwATo">edit</a>]</div> The <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hajj" title="Hajj" id="mwGg">Hajj</a> pilgrimage to Mecca was Ibn Battuta's first long journey, starting in 1325. He travelled overland, at first alone but later joining various pilgrim caravans. <section data-mw-section-id="3" id="mwGw"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAT0"><h3 id="Across_North_Africa">Across North Africa</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Across North Africa" id="mwAUA">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-kartographer-container thumb tright" typeof="mw:Extension/mapframe mw:Transclusion" about="#mwt6" id="mwHA" data-mw='{"name":"mapframe","attrs":{"align":"right","height":"420","image":"","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,event,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view,black,blue,brown,chocolate,forestgreen,gold,gray,grey,lime,magenta,maroon,mediumaquamarine,navy,red,royalblue,orange,silver,steelblue,teal,fuchsia,route1,route2,route3,route4,route5","text":"Map of Voyages of Ibn 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data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Tangier]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Morocco"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q126148"},"content":{"wt":"Ibn Battuta's hometown."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">35.776667</abbr><abbr class="longitude">-5.803889</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/35.776667/-5.803889/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="35.776667" data-lon="-5.803889" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt11" id="mwJQ" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Tangier - 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Tangier</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Tangier" title="Tangier on Wikipedia"><img alt="Tangier on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwJg"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt12" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwJw" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Algiers]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Algeria"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q3561"},"content":{"wt":"The caravan camped outside the city and became larger as more pilgrims joined it."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">36.776389</abbr><abbr class="longitude">3.058611</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/36.776389/3.058611/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="36.776389" data-lon="3.058611" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt14" id="mwKA" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Argel 3.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"36.776389","longitude":"3.058611","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[3.058611,36.776389],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Algiers]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Argel 3.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>2</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Algiers" title="Algiers">Algiers</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Algeria</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">The caravan camped outside the city and became larger as more pilgrims joined it.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q3561" title="Algiers (Q3561) on Wikidata"><img alt="Algiers (Q3561) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Algiers</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Algiers" title="Algiers on Wikipedia"><img alt="Algiers on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwKQ"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt15" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwKg" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Tunis]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Tunisia"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q3572"},"content":{"wt":"After two months in Tunis, mostly spent with the local legal scholars, he joined another eastbound caravan."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">36.800833</abbr><abbr class="longitude">10.18</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/36.800833/10.18/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="36.800833" data-lon="10.18" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt17" id="mwKw" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Panoramique du centre de Tunis (3197369985) (cropped).jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"36.800833","longitude":"10.18","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[10.18,36.800833],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Tunis]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Panoramique du centre de Tunis (3197369985) (cropped).jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>3</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tunis" title="Tunis">Tunis</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Tunisia</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">After two months in Tunis, mostly spent with the local legal scholars, he joined another eastbound caravan.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q3572" title="Tunis (Q3572) on Wikidata"><img alt="Tunis (Q3572) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Tunis</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Tunis" title="Tunis on Wikipedia"><img alt="Tunis on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwLA"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt18" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwLQ" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Tripoli]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Libya"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q3579"}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">32.87519</abbr><abbr class="longitude">13.18746</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/32.87519/13.18746/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="32.87519" data-lon="13.18746" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt20" id="mwLg" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Marcus Aurelius Arch Tripoli Libya.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"32.87519","longitude":"13.18746","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[13.18746,32.87519],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Tripoli]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Marcus Aurelius Arch Tripoli Libya.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>4</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tripoli" title="Tripoli">Tripoli</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Libya</bdi>). <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q3579" title="Tripoli (Q3579) on Wikidata"><img alt="Tripoli (Q3579) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Tripoli, Libya</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya on Wikipedia"><img alt="Tripoli, Libya on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwLw"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt21" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwMA" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Alexandria]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Egypt"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q87"},"content":{"wt":"Ibn Battuta was greatly impressed by the city and spent several weeks there."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">31.1975</abbr><abbr class="longitude">29.8925</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/31.1975/29.8925/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="31.1975" data-lon="29.8925" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt23" id="mwMQ" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Alexandria - Egypt.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"31.1975","longitude":"29.8925","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[29.8925,31.1975],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Alexandria]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Alexandria - Egypt.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>5</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Egypt</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Ibn Battuta was greatly impressed by the city and spent several weeks there.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q87" title="Alexandria (Q87) on Wikidata"><img alt="Alexandria (Q87) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Alexandria</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Alexandria" title="Alexandria on Wikipedia"><img alt="Alexandria on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwMg"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt24" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwMw" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Cairo]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Egypt"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q85"},"content":{"wt":"This was the greatest city of the Islamic world, and at the time the largest anywhere except China. He arrived in 1326, stayed about a month, then set off for Mecca."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">30.044444</abbr><abbr class="longitude">31.235833</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/30.044444/31.235833/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="30.044444" data-lon="31.235833" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt26" id="mwNA" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Cairo Form Top.JPG|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"30.044444","longitude":"31.235833","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[31.235833,30.044444],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Cairo]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Cairo Form Top.JPG|300px]]\"}}"}}'>6</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Egypt</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">This was the greatest city of the Islamic world, and at the time the largest anywhere except China. He arrived in 1326, stayed about a month, then set off for Mecca.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q85" title="Cairo (Q85) on Wikidata"><img alt="Cairo (Q85) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Cairo</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Cairo" title="Cairo on Wikipedia"><img alt="Cairo on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> </section><section data-mw-section-id="4" id="mwNQ"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAUM"><h3 id="Cairo_to_Mecca">Cairo to Mecca</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cairo to Mecca" id="mwAUY">edit</a>]</div> There were several routes from Cairo to Mecca, and he chose what was then usually the safest — south along the Nile in territory controlled by the Mamluk rulers of Egypt, then across the Red Sea to <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Jeddah" title="Jeddah" id="mwOA">Jeddah</a>. However, as he approached the Red Sea port involved, he found out that its ruler was in revolt against the Mamluks and there was fighting nearby, so he turned back to Cairo. From there he took another route to Mecca, first going to Damascus via <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Gaza" title="Gaza" class="mw-redirect" id="mwOg">Gaza</a>, <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hebron" title="Hebron" id="mwOw">Hebron</a> and <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem" id="mwPA">Jerusalem</a>. <ul id="mwPQ"><li id="mwPg"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt27" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwPw" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Damascus]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Syria"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q3766"},"content":{"wt":"This ancient city was one of the great centers of the Islamic world, important for trade, learning, and the arts. The rulers organized caravans for pilgrims, and provided them with guards. Ibn Battuta joined one of those."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">33.513056</abbr><abbr class="longitude">36.291944</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/33.513056/36.291944/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="33.513056" data-lon="36.291944" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt29" id="mwQA" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Damascus, Syria, Panorama at sunset.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"33.513056","longitude":"36.291944","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[36.291944,33.513056],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Damascus]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Damascus, Syria, Panorama at sunset.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>7</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Syria</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">This ancient city was one of the great centers of the Islamic world, important for trade, learning, and the arts. The rulers organized caravans for pilgrims, and provided them with guards. Ibn Battuta joined one of those.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q3766" title="Damascus (Q3766) on Wikidata"><img alt="Damascus (Q3766) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Damascus</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Damascus" title="Damascus on Wikipedia"><img alt="Damascus on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwQQ"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt30" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwQg" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Medina]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Saudi Arabia"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q35484"},"content":{"wt":"The second holiest city in Islam, with the [[Medina#Religious_places|tomb of the Prophet]]."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">24.47</abbr><abbr class="longitude">39.61</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/24.47/39.61/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="24.47" data-lon="39.61" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt32" id="mwQw" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Madeena masjid nabavi 12122008230.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"24.47","longitude":"39.61","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[39.61,24.47],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Medina]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Madeena masjid nabavi 12122008230.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>8</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Medina" title="Medina">Medina</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Saudi Arabia</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">The second holiest city in Islam, with the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Medina#Religious_places" title="Medina">tomb of the Prophet</a>.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q35484" title="Medina (Q35484) on Wikidata"><img alt="Medina (Q35484) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Medina</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Medina" title="Medina on Wikipedia"><img alt="Medina on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwRA"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt33" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwRQ" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Mecca]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Saudi Arabia"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q5806"},"content":{"wt":"He stayed for a year studying [[Islam]], and in particular Islamic Law."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">21.4225</abbr><abbr class="longitude">39.826111</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/21.4225/39.826111/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="21.4225" data-lon="39.826111" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt35" id="mwRg" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Makkah Montage.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"21.4225","longitude":"39.826111","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[39.826111,21.4225],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Mecca]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Makkah Montage.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>9</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Saudi Arabia</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">He stayed for a year studying <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, and in particular Islamic Law.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q5806" title="Mecca (Q5806) on Wikidata"><img alt="Mecca (Q5806) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Mecca</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Mecca" title="Mecca on Wikipedia"><img alt="Mecca on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> </section><section data-mw-section-id="5" id="mwRw"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAUk"><h3 id="Mesopotamia_and_Persia">Mesopotamia and Persia</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Mesopotamia and Persia" id="mwAUw">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb" id="mwSA"><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Ibn_Battuta_Mall_on_2_June_2007_Pict_3.jpg" class="mw-file-description" id="mwSQ"><img resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Ibn_Battuta_Mall_on_2_June_2007_Pict_3.jpg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Ibn_Battuta_Mall_on_2_June_2007_Pict_3.jpg/220px-Ibn_Battuta_Mall_on_2_June_2007_Pict_3.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="638" data-file-height="1014" data-file-type="bitmap" height="350" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Ibn_Battuta_Mall_on_2_June_2007_Pict_3.jpg/330px-Ibn_Battuta_Mall_on_2_June_2007_Pict_3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Ibn_Battuta_Mall_on_2_June_2007_Pict_3.jpg/440px-Ibn_Battuta_Mall_on_2_June_2007_Pict_3.jpg 2x" class="mw-file-element" id="mwSg"/></a><figcaption id="mwSw">In Ibn Battuta Mall, <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Dubai" title="Dubai" id="mwTA">Dubai</a></figcaption></figure> After his year in Mecca, he visited what are now <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq" id="mwTg">Iraq</a> and <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran" id="mwTw">Iran</a>, which were then parts of the Mongol-ruled <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ilkhanate" title="Ilkhanate" class="mw-redirect" id="mwUA">Ilkhanate</a>. <ul id="mwUQ"><li id="mwUg"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt36" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwUw" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Basra]]"},"alt":{"wt":""},"url":{"wt":""},"email":{"wt":""},"address":{"wt":""},"lat":{"wt":""},"long":{"wt":""},"directions":{"wt":"Iraq"},"phone":{"wt":""},"tollfree":{"wt":""},"hours":{"wt":""},"price":{"wt":""},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q48195"},"content":{"wt":"He did not consider that this town, known as the home port of [[One Thousand and One Nights|Sinbad the Sailor]], lived up to its reputation."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">30.515</abbr><abbr class="longitude">47.81</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/30.515/47.81/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="30.515" data-lon="47.81" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt38" id="mwVA" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Basra-Shatt-Al-Arab.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"30.515","longitude":"47.81","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[47.81,30.515],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Basra]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Basra-Shatt-Al-Arab.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>10</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Basra" title="Basra">Basra</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Iraq</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">He did not consider that this town, known as the home port of <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights" title="One Thousand and One Nights">Sinbad the Sailor</a>, lived up to its reputation.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q48195" title="Basra (Q48195) on Wikidata"><img alt="Basra (Q48195) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Basra</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Basra" title="Basra on Wikipedia"><img alt="Basra on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwVQ"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt39" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwVg" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Isfahan]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Iran"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q42053"},"content":{"wt":"When Ibn Battuta was there, this city was still recovering after being destroyed by the Mongols a few decades earlier. Today it is again one of Iran's finest cities."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">32.6525</abbr><abbr class="longitude">51.674722</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/32.6525/51.674722/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="32.6525" data-lon="51.674722" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt41" id="mwVw" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Naghshe Jahan Square Isfahan modified2.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"32.6525","longitude":"51.674722","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[51.674722,32.6525],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Isfahan]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Naghshe Jahan Square Isfahan modified2.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>11</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Isfahan" title="Isfahan">Isfahan</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Iran</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">When Ibn Battuta was there, this city was still recovering after being destroyed by the Mongols a few decades earlier. Today it is again one of Iran's finest cities.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q42053" title="Isfahan (Q42053) on Wikidata"><img alt="Isfahan (Q42053) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Isfahan</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Isfahan" title="Isfahan on Wikipedia"><img alt="Isfahan on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwWA"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt42" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwWQ" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Shiraz]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Iran"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q6397066"},"content":{"wt":"As one of the few Persian cities not sacked by the Mongols, the \"city of roses\" was undergoing a bit of a renaissance when Ibn Battuta visited. He wrote: ''its inhabitants are handsome in figure and clean in their dress. In the whole East there is no city except Shiraz which approached Damascus in the beauty of its bazaars, fruit-gardens and rivers.''"}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">29.61</abbr><abbr class="longitude">52.5425</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/29.61/52.5425/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="29.61" data-lon="52.5425" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt44" id="mwWg" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Darvaze Ghoran11.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"29.61","longitude":"52.5425","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[52.5425,29.61],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Shiraz]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Darvaze Ghoran11.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>12</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Shiraz" title="Shiraz">Shiraz</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Iran</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">As one of the few Persian cities not sacked by the Mongols, the "city of roses" was undergoing a bit of a renaissance when Ibn Battuta visited. He wrote: its inhabitants are handsome in figure and clean in their dress. In the whole East there is no city except Shiraz which approached Damascus in the beauty of its bazaars, fruit-gardens and rivers.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q6397066" title="Shiraz (Q6397066) on Wikidata"><img alt="Shiraz (Q6397066) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Shiraz</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Shiraz" title="Shiraz on Wikipedia"><img alt="Shiraz on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwWw"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt45" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwXA" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Baghdad]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Iraq"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q1530"},"content":{"wt":"This city had also been destroyed by the Mongols."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">33.315278</abbr><abbr class="longitude">44.366111</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/33.315278/44.366111/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="33.315278" data-lon="44.366111" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt47" id="mwXQ" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Bagdad collage.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"33.315278","longitude":"44.366111","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[44.366111,33.315278],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Baghdad]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Bagdad collage.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>13</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Iraq</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">This city had also been destroyed by the Mongols.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q1530" title="Baghdad (Q1530) on Wikidata"><img alt="Baghdad (Q1530) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Baghdad</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Baghdad" title="Baghdad on Wikipedia"><img alt="Baghdad on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwXg"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt48" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwXw" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Tabriz]]"},"directions":{"wt":"[[Iranian Azerbaijan]]"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q80053"},"content":{"wt":"Tabriz surrendered to the Mongols, so it had not been destroyed. At this time, it was one of the world's great cities and a major center for [[Silk Road]] trade."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">38.073889</abbr><abbr class="longitude">46.296111</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/38.073889/46.296111/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="38.073889" data-lon="46.296111" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt50" id="mwYA" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Panorama of Tabriz.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"38.073889","longitude":"46.296111","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[46.296111,38.073889],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Tabriz]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Panorama of Tabriz.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>14</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tabriz" title="Tabriz">Tabriz</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;"><a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Iranian_Azerbaijan" title="Iranian Azerbaijan">Iranian Azerbaijan</a></bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Tabriz surrendered to the Mongols, so it had not been destroyed. At this time, it was one of the world's great cities and a major center for <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Silk_Road" title="Silk Road">Silk Road</a> trade.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q80053" title="Tabriz (Q80053) on Wikidata"><img alt="Tabriz (Q80053) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Tabriz</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Tabriz" title="Tabriz on Wikipedia"><img alt="Tabriz on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> </section><section data-mw-section-id="6" id="mwYQ"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAU8"><h3 id="East_Africa">East Africa</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: East Africa" id="mwAVI">edit</a>]</div> He returned to Mecca, then travelled by sea along the coast of <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/East_Africa" title="East Africa" id="mwYw">East Africa</a>, visiting <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Aden" title="Aden" id="mwZA">Aden</a>, <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mogadishu" title="Mogadishu" id="mwZQ">Mogadishu</a>, <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Malindi" title="Malindi" id="mwZg">Malindi</a>, <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mombasa" title="Mombasa" id="mwZw">Mombasa</a> and <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Zanzibar" title="Zanzibar" id="mwaA">Zanzibar</a>. <ul id="mwaQ"><li id="mwag"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt51" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwaw" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Kilwa]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Tanzania"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q1741475"},"content":{"wt":"The southernmost point reached by Ibn Battuta."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">-8.98173</abbr><abbr class="longitude">39.51722</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/-8.98173/39.51722/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="-8.98173" data-lon="39.51722" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt53" id="mwbA" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:GreatMosque.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"-8.98173","longitude":"39.51722","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[39.51722,-8.98173],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Kilwa]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:GreatMosque.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>15</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Kilwa" title="Kilwa">Kilwa</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Tanzania</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">The southernmost point reached by Ibn Battuta.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q1741475" title="Kilwa Kisiwani (Q1741475) on Wikidata"><img alt="Kilwa Kisiwani (Q1741475) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Kilwa Kisiwani</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Kilwa_Kisiwani" title="Kilwa Kisiwani on Wikipedia"><img alt="Kilwa Kisiwani on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> After returning to Yemen, he went east on foot to <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Oman" title="Oman" id="mwbg">Oman</a> (which proved to be a difficult journey), by boat up the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf" id="mwbw">Persian Gulf</a>, then overland back to Mecca. <ul id="mwcA"><li id="mwcQ"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt54" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwcg" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Qalhat]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Oman"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q680322"},"content":{"wt":"This was an important port at the time; both [[Zheng He]] and [[Marco Polo]] also visited it. The city no longer exists, but the ruins are a {{unesco}}. The nearest town today is [[Sur]]."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">22.699996</abbr><abbr class="longitude">59.369896</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/22.699996/59.369896/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="22.699996" data-lon="59.369896" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt56" id="mwcw" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Bibi Maryam mausoleum.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"22.699996","longitude":"59.369896","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[59.369896,22.699996],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Qalhat]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Bibi Maryam mausoleum.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>16</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Qalhat?action=edit&redlink=1" title="Qalhat (page does not exist)" class="new" typeof="mw:LocalizedAttrs" data-mw-i18n='{"title":{"lang":"x-page","key":"red-link-title","params":["Qalhat"]}}'>Qalhat</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Oman</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">This was an important port at the time; both <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Zheng_He" title="Zheng He" class="mw-redirect">Zheng He</a> and <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Marco_Polo" title="Marco Polo" class="mw-redirect">Marco Polo</a> also visited it. The city no longer exists, but the ruins are a <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_List" title="UNESCO World Heritage List"><img resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/15px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="280" data-file-type="drawing" height="15" width="15" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/23px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/30px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_List" title="UNESCO World Heritage List">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a>. The nearest town today is <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sur" title="Sur">Sur</a>.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q680322" title="Qalhat (Q680322) on Wikidata"><img alt="Qalhat (Q680322) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Qalhat</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Qalhat" title="Qalhat on Wikipedia"><img alt="Qalhat on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> After some time recovering in Mecca, he was ready to continue his journey east. In nearby <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Jeddah" title="Jeddah" id="mwdQ">Jeddah</a>, he spent several months while looking for a ship that would take him to India, but to no avail. </section><section data-mw-section-id="7" id="mwdg"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAVU"><h3 id="Anatolia">Anatolia</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Anatolia" id="mwAVg">edit</a>]</div> He figured he might be able to join a Turkish trade caravan heading east, so he set off north toward <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia" class="mw-redirect" id="mweA">Anatolia</a>, travelling via Egypt and Damascus. He left Syria on a <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Genoa" title="Genoa" id="mweQ">Genoese</a> galley which took 10 days to cross the Mediterranean to arrive at Alanya, on the southern coast of Anatolia. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb" id="mweg"><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Battuta-route-1332-1346.png" class="mw-file-description" id="mwew"><img resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Battuta-route-1332-1346.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Battuta-route-1332-1346.png/220px-Battuta-route-1332-1346.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="871" data-file-height="613" data-file-type="bitmap" height="155" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Battuta-route-1332-1346.png/330px-Battuta-route-1332-1346.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Battuta-route-1332-1346.png/440px-Battuta-route-1332-1346.png 2x" class="mw-file-element" id="mwfA"/></a><figcaption id="mwfQ">Battuta-route-1332-1346</figcaption></figure> <ul id="mwfg"><li id="mwfw"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt57" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwgA" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Alanya]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Turkey"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q171810"},"content":{"wt":"At that time, Alanya was a major port exporting wood to Syria and Egypt. Nowadays it has limited shipping (it has a seasonal ferry line to Cyprus and that's about it), but is a major resort town. The citadel mentioned by Ibn Battuta is the main sight."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">36.543611</abbr><abbr class="longitude">31.999722</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/36.543611/31.999722/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="36.543611" data-lon="31.999722" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt59" id="mwgQ" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Alanyafromcastle.JPG|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"36.543611","longitude":"31.999722","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[31.999722,36.543611],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Alanya]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Alanyafromcastle.JPG|300px]]\"}}"}}'>17</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Alanya" title="Alanya">Alanya</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Turkey</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">At that time, Alanya was a major port exporting wood to Syria and Egypt. Nowadays it has limited shipping (it has a seasonal ferry line to Cyprus and that's about it), but is a major resort town. The citadel mentioned by Ibn Battuta is the main sight.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q171810" title="Alanya (Q171810) on Wikidata"><img alt="Alanya (Q171810) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Alanya</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Alanya" title="Alanya on Wikipedia"><img alt="Alanya on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> Ibn Battuta praised "the land of the Turks" for its beauty, delicious cuisine, and its people's hospitality, but was surprised by the Turks' less than perfect compliance with Islamic norms. <ul id="mwgw"><li id="mwhA"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt60" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwhQ" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Antalya]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Turkey"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q6487"},"content":{"wt":"Ibn Battuta continued west along the coast, and found Antalya to be one of the most attractive towns in the world. It apparently still is, as it welcomes millions of modern-day tourists annually. The city walls Ibn Battuta described are intact, and the city maintains its multiculturalism he spoke of — although there is no longer a local Greek community, Antalya has a large European expat population, reinforced by thousands of Ukrainians ''and'' Russians fleeing the war since 2022 and making it their home."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">36.90812</abbr><abbr class="longitude">30.69556</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/36.90812/30.69556/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="36.90812" data-lon="30.69556" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt62" id="mwhg" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Antalya city.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"36.90812","longitude":"30.69556","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[30.69556,36.90812],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Antalya]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Antalya city.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>18</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Antalya" title="Antalya">Antalya</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Turkey</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Ibn Battuta continued west along the coast, and found Antalya to be one of the most attractive towns in the world. It apparently still is, as it welcomes millions of modern-day tourists annually. The city walls Ibn Battuta described are intact, and the city maintains its multiculturalism he spoke of — although there is no longer a local Greek community, Antalya has a large European expat population, reinforced by thousands of Ukrainians and Russians fleeing the war since 2022 and making it their home.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q6487" title="Antalya (Q6487) on Wikidata"><img alt="Antalya (Q6487) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Antalya</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Antalya" title="Antalya on Wikipedia"><img alt="Antalya on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> Ibn Battuta extensively travelled the land, and was hosted by an Islamic fraternity in most towns. He eventually made his way to Konya, the capital of the Mevlevi Sufi order. <ul id="mwiA"><li id="mwiQ"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt63" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwig" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Konya]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Turkey"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q79857"},"content":{"wt":"Konya is a major center of the mystical [[Sufi]] branch of Islam, and the site of the tomb of Rumi, Sufi poet and the founder of the Mevlevi order. Its members have been known as the \"whirling dervishes\" for the ecstatic movements performed during their ''sema'' ceremony. ''Sema''s are still regularly held in Konya."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">37.872769</abbr><abbr class="longitude">32.492139</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/37.872769/32.492139/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="37.872769" data-lon="32.492139" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt65" id="mwiw" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:City of Konya.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"37.872769","longitude":"32.492139","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[32.492139,37.872769],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Konya]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:City of Konya.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>19</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Konya" title="Konya">Konya</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Turkey</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Konya is a major center of the mystical <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sufi" title="Sufi" class="mw-redirect">Sufi</a> branch of Islam, and the site of the tomb of Rumi, Sufi poet and the founder of the Mevlevi order. Its members have been known as the "whirling dervishes" for the ecstatic movements performed during their sema ceremony. Semas are still regularly held in Konya.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q79857" title="Konya (Q79857) on Wikidata"><img alt="Konya (Q79857) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Konya</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Konya" title="Konya on Wikipedia"><img alt="Konya on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> At the time of Ibn Battuta's visit, there was no central authority in Anatolia, as the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum collapsed following the Mongol invasion, and numerous petty kingdoms known as beyliks had emerged in the power vacuum left behind. Ibn Battuta visited several of the local rulers, including Orhan, the chief of the nascent statelet that was to become the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire" id="mwjg">Ottoman Empire</a>. In November 1331, he started his trek north, which proved to be full of trouble. His progress was cut off by a raging river, then a guide got them lost (apparently on purpose as the guide later <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Common_scams" title="Common scams" id="mwkA">demanded a ransom</a>), and as the winter approached he almost froze to death, but he eventually managed to get to Sinop on the Black Sea coast. <ul id="mwkQ"><li id="mwkg"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt66" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwkw" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Sinop]]"},"alt":{"wt":""},"url":{"wt":""},"email":{"wt":""},"address":{"wt":""},"lat":{"wt":""},"long":{"wt":""},"directions":{"wt":"Turkey"},"phone":{"wt":""},"tollfree":{"wt":""},"hours":{"wt":""},"price":{"wt":""},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q599416"},"content":{"wt":"Ibn Battuta had to wait for more than a month here for the weather to clear up and the sailings to resume. Nowadays the town is a minor harbour on the northernmost tip of Anatolia, and a minor beach resort."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">42.026667</abbr><abbr class="longitude">35.151111</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/42.026667/35.151111/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="42.026667" data-lon="35.151111" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt68" id="mwlA" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Sinop Overview 2009.JPG|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"42.026667","longitude":"35.151111","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[35.151111,42.026667],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Sinop]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Sinop Overview 2009.JPG|300px]]\"}}"}}'>20</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sinop" title="Sinop">Sinop</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Turkey</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Ibn Battuta had to wait for more than a month here for the weather to clear up and the sailings to resume. Nowadays the town is a minor harbour on the northernmost tip of Anatolia, and a minor beach resort.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q599416" title="Sinop (Q599416) on Wikidata"><img alt="Sinop (Q599416) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Sinop, Turkey</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Sinop,_Turkey" title="Sinop, Turkey on Wikipedia"><img alt="Sinop, Turkey on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> </section><section data-mw-section-id="8" id="mwlQ"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAVs"><h3 id="The_Mongol_lands">The Mongol lands</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Mongol lands" id="mwAV4">edit</a>]</div> From there he went into Mongol territory, first that of the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Golden_Horde" title="Golden Horde" class="mw-redirect" id="mwlw">Golden Horde</a>. His boat struggled through the severe storms common in the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea" id="mwmA">Black Sea</a>, and finally reached Caffa, present-day <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Feodosiya" title="Feodosiya" id="mwmQ">Feodosiya</a> in Crimea, several days later. <ul id="mwmg"><li id="mwmw"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt69" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwnA" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Sudak]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Crimea"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q7830"},"content":{"wt":"Historically this city had a largely Greek population and extensive trade with the Mediterranean. Ibn Battuta rated it one of the world's four great ports."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">44.851389</abbr><abbr class="longitude">34.9725</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/44.851389/34.9725/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="44.851389" data-lon="34.9725" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt71" id="mwnQ" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:View of Sudak from Genoese Fortress.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"44.851389","longitude":"34.9725","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[34.9725,44.851389],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Sudak]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:View of Sudak from Genoese Fortress.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>21</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sudak" title="Sudak">Sudak</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Crimea</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Historically this city had a largely Greek population and extensive trade with the Mediterranean. Ibn Battuta rated it one of the world's four great ports.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q7830" title="Sudak (Q7830) on Wikidata"><img alt="Sudak (Q7830) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Sudak</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Sudak" title="Sudak on Wikipedia"><img alt="Sudak on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> He visited many Black Sea ports, inhabited by a multinational merchant population and receiving the rich produce of the steppe as well as that brought over via the Silk Road. He departed from <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Rostov_Oblast" title="Rostov Oblast" id="mwnw">Azov</a> to catch up with the travelling court of Uzbeg Khan of the Golden Horde, whom he learned was a few days ahead. At the time, the area was inhabited by Turkic and Mongolian nomads. He described their cuisine based on horse meat (still a delicacy in some of the modern nations in the wider region such as <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan" id="mwoQ">Kazakhstan</a>) and how they let their horses and other livestock free range on the open steppe. He also mentioned the nomad drinks of kumis, fermented mare's milk still popular in Turkic <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia" id="mwog">Central Asia</a> and in <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mongolia" title="Mongolia" id="mwow">Mongolia</a>, and boza, a thick malt drink now common in Turkey and the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans" id="mwpA">Balkans</a>. Ibn Battuta met the khan's court, which he likened to an entire city on the move, near Beshtau, in what is now <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Stavropol_Krai" title="Stavropol Krai" id="mwpg">Stavropol Krai</a> north of the Caucasus Mountains. From there, he went north to Bolghar, although some modern historians dispute this. If it's true that he had been there, that was the northernmost point he ever set foot in — indeed he noted that the summer nights that far north were unusually short to him. <ul id="mwpw"><li id="mwqA"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt72" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwqQ" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Kazan#Go next|Bolghar]]"},"directions":{"wt":"[[Tatarstan]]"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q2486263"},"content":{"wt":"Bolghar was the capital of Volga Bulgaria (forerunner of Tatarstan and remotely related to the modern nation of [[Bulgaria]]) which collapsed with the Mongol takeover. However, the Mongols maintained the city as the centre of a separate duchy, and it acquired immense wealth in this period. Today it is a {{unesco}} rich in ancient monuments, and the Tatar people consider it their spiritual heartland."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">54.977391</abbr><abbr class="longitude">49.054257</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/54.977391/49.054257/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="54.977391" data-lon="49.054257" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt74" id="mwqg" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Булгарское городище 9.JPG|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"54.977391","longitude":"49.054257","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[49.054257,54.977391],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Kazan#Go next|Bolghar]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Булгарское городище 9.JPG|300px]]\"}}"}}'>22</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Kazan#Go_next" title="Kazan">Bolghar</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;"><a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tatarstan" title="Tatarstan">Tatarstan</a></bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Bolghar was the capital of Volga Bulgaria (forerunner of Tatarstan and remotely related to the modern nation of <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>) which collapsed with the Mongol takeover. However, the Mongols maintained the city as the centre of a separate duchy, and it acquired immense wealth in this period. Today it is a <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_List" title="UNESCO World Heritage List"><img resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/15px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="280" data-file-type="drawing" height="15" width="15" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/23px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/30px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_List" title="UNESCO World Heritage List">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a> rich in ancient monuments, and the Tatar people consider it their spiritual heartland.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q2486263" title="Bolghar Gord (Q2486263) on Wikidata"><img alt="Bolghar Gord (Q2486263) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Bolghar</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Bolghar" title="Bolghar on Wikipedia"><img alt="Bolghar on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> While in Bolghar, Ibn Battuta thought about venturing further north into the "land of darkness", likely somewhere deep inside <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Siberia" title="Siberia" id="mwrA">Siberia</a>, which could only be reached by a dog sled and was said to be inhabited by a mysterious group of people. But such a trip never materialized. From Bolghar, he returned to the khan's court, and they moved to Astrakhan together. <ul id="mwrg"><li id="mwrw"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt75" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwsA" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Astrakhan]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Russia"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q3927"},"content":{"wt":"Winter capital of the Golden Horde, on the main route connecting the Silk Road to Russia."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">46.35</abbr><abbr class="longitude">48.035</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/46.35/48.035/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="46.35" data-lon="48.035" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt77" id="mwsQ" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Panarama astrakhan 2009.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"46.35","longitude":"48.035","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[48.035,46.35],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Astrakhan]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Panarama astrakhan 2009.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>23</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Astrakhan" title="Astrakhan">Astrakhan</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Russia</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Winter capital of the Golden Horde, on the main route connecting the Silk Road to Russia.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q3927" title="Astrakhan (Q3927) on Wikidata"><img alt="Astrakhan (Q3927) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Astrakhan</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Astrakhan" title="Astrakhan on Wikipedia"><img alt="Astrakhan on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> At Astrakhan, he heard the khan's wife, a Byzantine princess by birth, was about to leave for her father's realm to give birth to her baby there. So in July 1332 Ibn Battuta joined her party for a 75-day trip back along the Black Sea to Constantinople, where he stayed for more than a month. <ul id="mwsw"><li id="mwtA"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt78" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwtQ" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"Constantinople"},"alt":{"wt":"today's [[Istanbul]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Turkey"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q406"},"content":{"wt":"Ibn Battuta's only visit to Christian Europe was to the capital of the [[Byzantine Empire]]. (Iberia, which he would visit about two decades later, was under the rule of the [[Al-Andalus|Muslim Moors]] in that period.) The Byzantine Empire of that time was a shadow of its former self, unrecovered from the [[Crusades|Latin occupation]] several decades prior, and ruling over only some territories in the Balkans and a tiny sliver of land in northwestern Anatolia. He saw Hagia Sophia, the main cathedral, but didn't go inside it. He described the inner city (now called [[Istanbul/Sultanahmet-Old City|Sultanahmet]]) and the suburb of [[Istanbul/Galata|Galata]], then an autonomous Italian colony and now one of the liveliest parts of the city, in detail."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">41.01</abbr><abbr class="longitude">28.960278</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/41.01/28.960278/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="41.01" data-lon="28.960278" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt80" id="mwtg" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Istanbul Montage 2016.png|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"41.01","longitude":"28.960278","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[28.960278,41.01],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"Constantinople\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Istanbul Montage 2016.png|300px]]\"}}"}}'>24</a> Constantinople<link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="nickname listing-alt" style="font-style: italic;">today's <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a></bdi>) (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Turkey</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Ibn Battuta's only visit to Christian Europe was to the capital of the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>. (Iberia, which he would visit about two decades later, was under the rule of the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Al-Andalus" title="Al-Andalus">Muslim Moors</a> in that period.) The Byzantine Empire of that time was a shadow of its former self, unrecovered from the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Crusades" title="Crusades">Latin occupation</a> several decades prior, and ruling over only some territories in the Balkans and a tiny sliver of land in northwestern Anatolia. He saw Hagia Sophia, the main cathedral, but didn't go inside it. He described the inner city (now called <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Istanbul/Sultanahmet-Old_City" title="Istanbul/Sultanahmet-Old City">Sultanahmet</a>) and the suburb of <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Istanbul/Galata" title="Istanbul/Galata">Galata</a>, then an autonomous Italian colony and now one of the liveliest parts of the city, in detail.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q406" title="Istanbul (Q406) on Wikidata"><img alt="Istanbul (Q406) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Istanbul</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Istanbul" title="Istanbul on Wikipedia"><img alt="Istanbul on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> As he went back to Astrakhan, it was already winter, brutal in the Eurasian steppe. He approached Sarai on the frozen Volga River. <ul id="mwuA"><li id="mwuQ"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt81" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwug" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"Sarai"},"directions":{"wt":"Russia"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q477152"},"content":{"wt":"One of the Golden Horde's main cities, sometimes the capital. It no longer exists and the archeology is complicated; certainly it was somewhere on the Volga, but it is not clear where and it seems likely more than one city had the name at different times. Ibn Battuta wrote: ''The city of al-Sarā is one of the finest of cities, of boundless size, situated in a plain, choked with the throng of its inhabitants, and possessing good bazaars and broad streets.''."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">47.174355</abbr><abbr class="longitude">47.454586</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/47.174355/47.454586/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="47.174355" data-lon="47.454586" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt83" id="mwuw" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"","group":"listing","latitude":"47.174355","longitude":"47.454586","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[47.454586,47.174355],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"Sarai\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"\"}}"}}'>25</a> Sarai<link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Russia</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">One of the Golden Horde's main cities, sometimes the capital. It no longer exists and the archeology is complicated; certainly it was somewhere on the Volga, but it is not clear where and it seems likely more than one city had the name at different times. Ibn Battuta wrote: The city of al-Sarā is one of the finest of cities, of boundless size, situated in a plain, choked with the throng of its inhabitants, and possessing good bazaars and broad streets..</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q477152" title="Sarai (Q477152) on Wikidata"><img alt="Sarai (Q477152) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Sarai (city)</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Sarai_(city)" title="Sarai (city) on Wikipedia"><img alt="Sarai (city) on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> From Sarai, his route trended south, into the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Chagatai_Khanate" title="Chagatai Khanate" class="mw-redirect" id="mwvQ">Chagatai Khanate</a>. <ul id="mwvg"><li id="mwvw"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt84" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwwA" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Samarkand]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Uzbekistan"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q5753"},"content":{"wt":"One of the greatest [[Silk Road]] trading cities."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">39.654722</abbr><abbr class="longitude">66.975833</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/39.654722/66.975833/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="39.654722" data-lon="66.975833" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt86" id="mwwQ" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Samarqand.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"39.654722","longitude":"66.975833","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[66.975833,39.654722],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Samarkand]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Samarqand.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>26</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Samarkand" title="Samarkand">Samarkand</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Uzbekistan</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">One of the greatest <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Silk_Road" title="Silk Road">Silk Road</a> trading cities.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q5753" title="Samarkand (Q5753) on Wikidata"><img alt="Samarkand (Q5753) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Samarkand</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Samarkand" title="Samarkand on Wikipedia"><img alt="Samarkand on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwwg"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt87" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwww" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Balkh]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Afghanistan"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q182159"},"content":{"wt":"At the time this was the main city of [[Bactria]]."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">36.758056</abbr><abbr class="longitude">66.898889</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/36.758056/66.898889/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="36.758056" data-lon="66.898889" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt89" id="mwxA" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:15c green mosque.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"36.758056","longitude":"66.898889","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[66.898889,36.758056],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Balkh]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:15c green mosque.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>27</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Balkh" title="Balkh">Balkh</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Afghanistan</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">At the time this was the main city of <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bactria" title="Bactria">Bactria</a>.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q182159" title="Balkh (Q182159) on Wikidata"><img alt="Balkh (Q182159) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Balkh</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Balkh" title="Balkh on Wikipedia"><img alt="Balkh on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> </section><section data-mw-section-id="9" id="mwxQ"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAWE"><h3 id="India">India</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: India" id="mwAWQ">edit</a>]</div> Leaving Mongol lands, he continued to the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent" class="mw-redirect" id="mwxw">Indian subcontinent</a>. <ul id="mwyA"><li id="mwyQ"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt90" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwyg" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Multan]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Pakistan"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q185453"},"content":{"wt":"An ancient city, a center for trade in Ibn Battuta's day."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">30.197778</abbr><abbr class="longitude">71.471111</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/30.197778/71.471111/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="30.197778" data-lon="71.471111" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt92" id="mwyw" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:MultanMontage.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"30.197778","longitude":"71.471111","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[71.471111,30.197778],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Multan]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:MultanMontage.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>28</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Multan" title="Multan">Multan</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Pakistan</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">An ancient city, a center for trade in Ibn Battuta's day.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q185453" title="Multan (Q185453) on Wikidata"><img alt="Multan (Q185453) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Multan</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Multan" title="Multan on Wikipedia"><img alt="Multan on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwzA"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt93" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwzQ" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Delhi]]"},"directions":{"wt":"India"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q1353"},"content":{"wt":"Ibn Battuta reached here in 1334 and stayed for seven years, working for the Sultan who, as the Muslim ruler of a mainly Hindu country, employed many foreign Muslims and rewarded them well. As a legal scholar with advanced training from Mecca, Ibn Battuta became a judge. However, the Sultan was quite cruel and erratic enough that some considered him mad, and as in any medieval court there were intrigues, so the work was not without risk."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">28.666667</abbr><abbr class="longitude">77.216667</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/28.666667/77.216667/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="28.666667" data-lon="77.216667" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt95" id="mwzg" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Delhi metropolitan region, satellite image, Landsat-5, 2011-03-12.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"28.666667","longitude":"77.216667","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[77.216667,28.666667],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Delhi]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Delhi metropolitan region, satellite image, Landsat-5, 2011-03-12.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>29</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">India</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Ibn Battuta reached here in 1334 and stayed for seven years, working for the Sultan who, as the Muslim ruler of a mainly Hindu country, employed many foreign Muslims and rewarded them well. As a legal scholar with advanced training from Mecca, Ibn Battuta became a judge. However, the Sultan was quite cruel and erratic enough that some considered him mad, and as in any medieval court there were intrigues, so the work was not without risk.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q1353" title="Delhi (Q1353) on Wikidata"><img alt="Delhi (Q1353) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Delhi</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Delhi" title="Delhi on Wikipedia"><img alt="Delhi on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> Eventually, the Sultan decided to use him as an envoy to China and put him in command of an expedition that included 15 Chinese envoys returning home. They went off toward the coast with a rich and well-guarded caravan, but had some serious trouble with rebels and bandits; at one point Ibn Battuta became separated from the caravan and was robbed of everything but his trousers. However, they did make it to the fortress of <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Daulatabad" title="Daulatabad" class="mw-redirect" id="mw0A">Daulatabad</a> where they rested up for a few days before continuing to <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cambay" title="Cambay" class="mw-redirect" id="mw0Q">Cambay</a>, then along the coast to <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Gandhar?action=edit&redlink=1" title="Gandhar (page does not exist)" class="new" typeof="mw:LocalizedAttrs" id="mw0g" data-mw-i18n='{"title":{"lang":"x-page","key":"red-link-title","params":["Gandhar"]}}'>Gandhar</a> where they boarded four ships. <ul id="mw0w"><li id="mw1A"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt96" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mw1Q" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Calicut]]"},"directions":{"wt":"India"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q28729"},"content":{"wt":"This was a major port of the [[Maritime Silk Road]]. Here they transferred from four dhows to three of the much larger Chinese junks."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">11.247778</abbr><abbr class="longitude">75.780278</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/11.247778/75.780278/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="11.247778" data-lon="75.780278" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt98" id="mw1g" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Calicut-bus-stand.JPG|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"11.247778","longitude":"75.780278","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[75.780278,11.247778],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Calicut]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Calicut-bus-stand.JPG|300px]]\"}}"}}'>30</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Calicut" title="Calicut" class="mw-redirect">Calicut</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">India</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">This was a major port of the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Maritime_Silk_Road" title="Maritime Silk Road" class="mw-redirect">Maritime Silk Road</a>. Here they transferred from four dhows to three of the much larger Chinese junks.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q28729" title="Kozhikode (Q28729) on Wikidata"><img alt="Kozhikode (Q28729) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Kozhikode</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Kozhikode" title="Kozhikode on Wikipedia"><img alt="Kozhikode on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> A severe storm came up, the junks put to sea (without Ibn Battuta) to ride it out, and two of them were sunk. The third ship set off for China, without Ibn Battuta; he pursued briefly, but gave up. That ship made it as far as <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sumatra" title="Sumatra" id="mw2A">Sumatra</a>, but then was seized by a local king. Left penniless, and afraid of what the Sultan might do if he returned to Delhi a failure, he found employment with one of the southern Muslin sultans for a while, then did some more travelling. </section><section data-mw-section-id="10" id="mw2g"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAWc"><h3 id="The_Maldives_and_Sri_Lanka">The Maldives and Sri Lanka</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: The Maldives and Sri Lanka" id="mwAWo">edit</a>]</div> <ul id="mw2w"><li id="mw3A"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt99" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mw3Q" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Malé]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Maldives"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q9347"},"content":{"wt":"He stayed for some time, becoming the kingdom's chief judge and acquiring four wives, all noblewomen. He wrote: ''It is easy to marry in these islands ... When the ships put in, the crew marry; when they intend to leave they divorce their wives. This is a kind of temporary marriage. The women of these islands never leave their country.''."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">4.175</abbr><abbr class="longitude">73.508333</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/4.175/73.508333/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="4.175" data-lon="73.508333" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt101" id="mw3g" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Male-total.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"4.175","longitude":"73.508333","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[73.508333,4.175],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Malé]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Male-total.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>31</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Malé" title="Malé">Malé</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Maldives</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">He stayed for some time, becoming the kingdom's chief judge and acquiring four wives, all noblewomen. He wrote: It is easy to marry in these islands ... When the ships put in, the crew marry; when they intend to leave they divorce their wives. This is a kind of temporary marriage. The women of these islands never leave their country..</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q9347" title="Malé (Q9347) on Wikidata"><img alt="Malé (Q9347) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Malé</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Malé" title="Malé on Wikipedia"><img alt="Malé on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mw3w"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt102" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mw4A" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Central_Province_(Sri_Lanka)#See|Adam's Peak]]"},"address":{"wt":""},"lat":{"wt":"6.809444"},"long":{"wt":"80.499722"},"directions":{"wt":"Sri Lanka"},"phone":{"wt":""},"tollfree":{"wt":""},"hours":{"wt":""},"price":{"wt":""},"wikipedia":{"wt":"Adam's Peak"},"content":{"wt":"This is a depression, shaped like a large human footprint, in a rock atop a mountain. It is a pilgrimage site for several religions, considered the footprint of Shiva, Hanuman, Buddha, or Saint Thomas. To Muslims and some Christians, of the first man, Adam."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">6.809444</abbr><abbr class="longitude">80.499722</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/6.809444/80.499722/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="6.809444" data-lon="80.499722" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt104" id="mw4Q" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"","group":"listing","latitude":"6.809444","longitude":"80.499722","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[80.499722,6.809444],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Central_Province_(Sri_Lanka)#See|Adam's Peak]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"\"}}"}}'>32</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Central_Province_(Sri_Lanka)#See" title="Central Province (Sri Lanka)">Adam's Peak</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Sri Lanka</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">This is a depression, shaped like a large human footprint, in a rock atop a mountain. It is a pilgrimage site for several religions, considered the footprint of Shiva, Hanuman, Buddha, or Saint Thomas. To Muslims and some Christians, of the first man, Adam.</bdi> Adam's Peak</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Adam's_Peak" title="Adam's Peak on Wikipedia"><img alt="Adam's Peak on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Listing_with_Wikipedia_link_but_not_Wikidata_link" about="#mwt102" id="mw4g"/></li></ul> Leaving Sri Lanka, he had more bad luck. One ship was sunk by a storm, but he was rescued and boarded another ship; that one was taken by pirates and again he was robbed of everything except his trousers. However, the pirates put the passengers ashore unharmed and they made their way back to Calicut. </section><section data-mw-section-id="11" id="mw5A"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAW0"><h3 id="Toward_China">Toward China</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Toward China" id="mwAXA">edit</a>]</div> From Calicut he decided to continue toward China; he returned to Malé and got on an eastbound ship. <ul id="mw5g"><li id="mw5w"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt105" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mw6A" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Chittagong]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Bangladesh"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q376749"},"content":{"wt":"This was a major port of the [[Maritime Silk Road]]."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">22.335</abbr><abbr class="longitude">91.8325</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/22.335/91.8325/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="22.335" data-lon="91.8325" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt107" id="mw6Q" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Chittagong collage.png|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"22.335","longitude":"91.8325","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[91.8325,22.335],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Chittagong]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Chittagong collage.png|300px]]\"}}"}}'>33</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Chittagong" title="Chittagong">Chittagong</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Bangladesh</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">This was a major port of the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Maritime_Silk_Road" title="Maritime Silk Road" class="mw-redirect">Maritime Silk Road</a>.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q376749" title="Chittagong (Q376749) on Wikidata"><img alt="Chittagong (Q376749) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Chittagong</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Chittagong" title="Chittagong on Wikipedia"><img alt="Chittagong on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mw6g"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt108" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mw6w" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Sylhet]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Bangladesh"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q466221"},"content":{"wt":"He went inland to this town in order to find a famous holy man, and spent three days with him."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">24.9</abbr><abbr class="longitude">91.866667</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/24.9/91.866667/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="24.9" data-lon="91.866667" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt110" id="mw7A" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Zindabazar Sylhet.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"24.9","longitude":"91.866667","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[91.866667,24.9],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Sylhet]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Zindabazar Sylhet.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>34</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sylhet" title="Sylhet">Sylhet</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Bangladesh</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">He went inland to this town in order to find a famous holy man, and spent three days with him.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q466221" title="Sylhet (Q466221) on Wikidata"><img alt="Sylhet (Q466221) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Sylhet</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Sylhet" title="Sylhet on Wikipedia"><img alt="Sylhet on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mw7Q"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt111" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mw7g" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"Samudra"},"alt":{"wt":"Samudera Pasai Sultanate"},"directions":{"wt":"on the north coast of [[Sumatra]]"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q3284315"},"content":{"wt":"At the time, this was the world's easternmost Muslim kingdom. The Sultan had Ibn Battuta as an honoured guest for two weeks."}},"i":0}}]}'> Samudra<link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="nickname listing-alt" style="font-style: italic;">Samudera Pasai Sultanate</bdi>) (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">on the north coast of <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sumatra" title="Sumatra">Sumatra</a></bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">At the time, this was the world's easternmost Muslim kingdom. The Sultan had Ibn Battuta as an honoured guest for two weeks.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q3284315" title="Pasai (Q3284315) on Wikidata"><img alt="Pasai (Q3284315) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Samudera Pasai Sultanate</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Samudera_Pasai_Sultanate" title="Samudera Pasai Sultanate on Wikipedia"><img alt="Samudera Pasai Sultanate on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> The Sultan owned ships which traded with China, and sent Ibn Battuta off on one. </section><section data-mw-section-id="12" id="mw8A"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAXM"><h3 id="China">China</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: China" id="mwAXY">edit</a>]</div> He landed in China at Quanzhou, then travelled by land to other cities. <ul id="mw8g"><li id="mw8w"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt112" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mw9A" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Quanzhou]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Fujian"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q68695"},"content":{"wt":"This port was the main eastern terminus of the [[Maritime Silk Road]]. [[Marco Polo]] had sailed home from here a few decades earlier, and considered it one of the world's two greatest ports; the other was Alexandria. Parts of the downtown are a {{unesco}}."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">24.91389</abbr><abbr class="longitude">118.58583</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/24.91389/118.58583/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="24.91389" data-lon="118.58583" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt114" id="mw9Q" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:20230130 Old City of Quanzhou 01.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"24.91389","longitude":"118.58583","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[118.58583,24.91389],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Quanzhou]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:20230130 Old City of Quanzhou 01.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>35</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Quanzhou" title="Quanzhou">Quanzhou</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Fujian</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">This port was the main eastern terminus of the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Maritime_Silk_Road" title="Maritime Silk Road" class="mw-redirect">Maritime Silk Road</a>. <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Marco_Polo" title="Marco Polo" class="mw-redirect">Marco Polo</a> had sailed home from here a few decades earlier, and considered it one of the world's two greatest ports; the other was Alexandria. Parts of the downtown are a <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_List" title="UNESCO World Heritage List"><img resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/15px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="280" data-file-type="drawing" height="15" width="15" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/23px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/30px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_List" title="UNESCO World Heritage List">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a>.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q68695" title="Quanzhou (Q68695) on Wikidata"><img alt="Quanzhou (Q68695) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Quanzhou</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Quanzhou" title="Quanzhou on Wikipedia"><img alt="Quanzhou on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mw9g"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt115" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mw9w" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Guangzhou]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Guangdong"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q16572"},"content":{"wt":"Another major port on the Maritime Silk Road, today southern China's greatest city."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">23.13</abbr><abbr class="longitude">113.26</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/23.13/113.26/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="23.13" data-lon="113.26" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt117" id="mw-A" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Guangzhou skyline.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"23.13","longitude":"113.26","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[113.26,23.13],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Guangzhou]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Guangzhou skyline.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>36</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Guangdong</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Another major port on the Maritime Silk Road, today southern China's greatest city.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q16572" title="Guangzhou (Q16572) on Wikidata"><img alt="Guangzhou (Q16572) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Guangzhou</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou on Wikipedia"><img alt="Guangzhou on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mw-Q"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt118" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mw-g" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Fuzhou]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Fujian"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q68481"},"content":{"wt":"Also a port, and a center of ship building, later China's largest center of tea export."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">26.076944</abbr><abbr class="longitude">119.291667</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/26.076944/119.291667/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="26.076944" data-lon="119.291667" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt120" id="mw-w" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Hockchew.JPG|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"26.076944","longitude":"119.291667","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[119.291667,26.076944],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Fuzhou]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Hockchew.JPG|300px]]\"}}"}}'>37</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Fuzhou" title="Fuzhou">Fuzhou</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Fujian</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Also a port, and a center of ship building, later China's largest center of tea export.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q68481" title="Fuzhou (Q68481) on Wikidata"><img alt="Fuzhou (Q68481) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Fuzhou</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Fuzhou" title="Fuzhou on Wikipedia"><img alt="Fuzhou on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mw_A"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt121" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mw_Q" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Hangzhou]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Zhejiang"},"phone":{"wt":""},"tollfree":{"wt":""},"hours":{"wt":""},"price":{"wt":""},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q4970"},"content":{"wt":"Quite likely this was the world's largest city in Ibn Battuta's time; Marco Polo wrote ''the city is beyond dispute the finest and the noblest in the world''. It had been the capital of the [[Song Dynasty]] and remained important after the Mongol conquest, completed in 1279. Today it remains one of China's largest and richest cities and a major destination for both domestic and foreign tourism. Parts of the downtown are a {{unesco}}."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">30.25</abbr><abbr class="longitude">120.1675</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/30.25/120.1675/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="30.25" data-lon="120.1675" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt123" id="mw_g" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Hangzhou CBD (Cropped).jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"30.25","longitude":"120.1675","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[120.1675,30.25],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Hangzhou]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Hangzhou CBD (Cropped).jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>38</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hangzhou" title="Hangzhou">Hangzhou</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Zhejiang</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Quite likely this was the world's largest city in Ibn Battuta's time; Marco Polo wrote the city is beyond dispute the finest and the noblest in the world. It had been the capital of the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Song_Dynasty" title="Song Dynasty" class="mw-redirect">Song Dynasty</a> and remained important after the Mongol conquest, completed in 1279. Today it remains one of China's largest and richest cities and a major destination for both domestic and foreign tourism. Parts of the downtown are a <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_List" title="UNESCO World Heritage List"><img resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/15px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="280" data-file-type="drawing" height="15" width="15" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/23px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg/30px-WV-Unesco-icon-small.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/UNESCO_World_Heritage_List" title="UNESCO World Heritage List">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a>.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q4970" title="Hangzhou (Q4970) on Wikidata"><img alt="Hangzhou (Q4970) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Hangzhou</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Hangzhou" title="Hangzhou on Wikipedia"><img alt="Hangzhou on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mw_w"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt124" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwAQA" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Beijing]]"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q956"},"content":{"wt":"He claimed to have reached the capital via the [[Grand Canal]] in 1345. Some historians believe he did not actually go there and is only repeating other travellers' tales for that part of the journey."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">39.90403</abbr><abbr class="longitude">116.407526</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/39.90403/116.407526/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="39.90403" data-lon="116.407526" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt126" id="mwAQE" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Large Beijing Landsat.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"39.90403","longitude":"116.407526","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[116.407526,39.90403],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Beijing]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Large Beijing Landsat.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>39</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/>. <bdi class="note listing-content">He claimed to have reached the capital via the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Grand_Canal" title="Grand Canal" class="mw-redirect">Grand Canal</a> in 1345. Some historians believe he did not actually go there and is only repeating other travellers' tales for that part of the journey.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q956" title="Beijing (Q956) on Wikidata"><img alt="Beijing (Q956) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Beijing</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Beijing" title="Beijing on Wikipedia"><img alt="Beijing on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> </section><section data-mw-section-id="13" id="mwAQI"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAXk"><h3 id="Homeward_bound">Homeward bound</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Homeward bound" id="mwAXw">edit</a>]</div> Returning to Quanzhou, he found a junk owned by the Sultan of Samudra in port, and boarded it to begin his three-year journey home. After a stop in Samudra he sailed to India, landing at <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Quilon" title="Quilon" class="mw-redirect" id="mwAQQ">Quilon</a> then returning to Calicut where he boarded a westbound ship. <ul id="mwAQU"><li id="mwAQY"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt127" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwAQc" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Zafar]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Yemen"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q140131"},"content":{"wt":"This was then a moderately important port, and had once been the capital of an empire. Today it is an archeological site in Yemen."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">14.213898</abbr><abbr class="longitude">44.402874</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/14.213898/44.402874/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="14.213898" data-lon="44.402874" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt129" id="mwAQg" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Zafar engl simple.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"14.213898","longitude":"44.402874","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[44.402874,14.213898],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Zafar]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Zafar engl simple.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>40</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Zafar" title="Zafar" class="mw-redirect">Zafar</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Yemen</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">This was then a moderately important port, and had once been the capital of an empire. Today it is an archeological site in Yemen.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q140131" title="Zafar (Q140131) on Wikidata"><img alt="Zafar (Q140131) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Zafar, Yemen</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Zafar,_Yemen" title="Zafar, Yemen on Wikipedia"><img alt="Zafar, Yemen on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwAQk"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt130" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwAQo" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Hormuz]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Iran"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q888643"},"content":{"wt":"This was an important port on the Maritime Silk Road, also visited by Marco Polo. Today it is a small town."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">27.095</abbr><abbr class="longitude">56.452778</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/27.095/56.452778/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="27.095" data-lon="56.452778" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt132" id="mwAQs" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:City of Hormuz.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"27.095","longitude":"56.452778","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[56.452778,27.095],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Hormuz]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:City of Hormuz.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>41</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hormuz" title="Hormuz">Hormuz</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Iran</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">This was an important port on the Maritime Silk Road, also visited by Marco Polo. Today it is a small town.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q888643" title="Hormuz (Q888643) on Wikidata"><img alt="Hormuz (Q888643) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Hormuz, Iran</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Hormuz,_Iran" title="Hormuz, Iran on Wikipedia"><img alt="Hormuz, Iran on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> When Ibn Battuta had visited 11 years before, the Ilkhanate had been peaceful under a strong sultan. However, that sultan had died and the region was now chaotic as various generals and nobles vied for power. Ibn Battuta left Persia quickly, going west via Baghdad and Damascus. <ul id="mwAQ0"><li id="mwAQ4"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt133" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwAQ8" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Aleppo]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Syria"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q41183"},"content":{"wt":"He stayed here a few months."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">36.2</abbr><abbr class="longitude">37.16</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/36.2/37.16/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="36.2" data-lon="37.16" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt135" id="mwARA" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Aleppo, View of the city, Syria.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"36.2","longitude":"37.16","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[37.16,36.2],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Aleppo]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Aleppo, View of the city, Syria.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>42</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Aleppo" title="Aleppo">Aleppo</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Syria</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">He stayed here a few months.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q41183" title="Aleppo (Q41183) on Wikidata"><img alt="Aleppo (Q41183) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Aleppo</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Aleppo" title="Aleppo on Wikipedia"><img alt="Aleppo on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> He went back to <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Palestine" title="Palestine" class="mw-redirect" id="mwARI">Palestine</a>, Cairo, Jeddah and Mecca, then returned to Egypt to take a ship west. <ul id="mwARM"><li id="mwARQ"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt136" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwARU" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"Tenes"},"directions":{"wt":"Algeria"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q111387378"},"content":{"wt":"He landed here, then made his way overland home to Tangier."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">36.533333</abbr><abbr class="longitude">1.316667</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/36.533333/1.316667/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="36.533333" data-lon="1.316667" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt138" id="mwARY" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"","group":"listing","latitude":"36.533333","longitude":"1.316667","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[1.316667,36.533333],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"Tenes\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"\"}}"}}'>43</a> Tenes<link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Algeria</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">He landed here, then made his way overland home to Tangier.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q111387378" title="Tenes (Q111387378) on Wikidata"><img alt="Tenes (Q111387378) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> </section><section data-mw-section-id="14" id="mwARc"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3" id="mwAX8"><h3 id="Iberia_and_West_Africa">Iberia and West Africa</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Iberia and West Africa" id="mwAYI">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb" id="mwARg"><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Ibn_Battuta_1349-1354.png" class="mw-file-description" id="mwARk"><img resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Ibn_Battuta_1349-1354.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Ibn_Battuta_1349-1354.png/220px-Ibn_Battuta_1349-1354.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="687" data-file-height="493" data-file-type="bitmap" height="158" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Ibn_Battuta_1349-1354.png/330px-Ibn_Battuta_1349-1354.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Ibn_Battuta_1349-1354.png/440px-Ibn_Battuta_1349-1354.png 2x" class="mw-file-element" id="mwARo"/></a><figcaption id="mwARs">1349–1354</figcaption></figure> By now, Ibn Battuta had visited most of the Muslim world (dar al Islam), as well as areas beyond it. His last major journey was to Islamic kingdoms he had not yet seen. <ul id="mwAR4"><li id="mwAR8"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt139" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwASA" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Granada]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Spain"},"phone":{"wt":""},"tollfree":{"wt":""},"hours":{"wt":""},"price":{"wt":""},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q8810"},"content":{"wt":"Greatest city of [[Al-Andalus]], the Moorish kingdom which then ruled nearly all of Iberia and parts of what is now France."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">37.178056</abbr><abbr class="longitude">-3.600833</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/37.178056/-3.600833/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="37.178056" data-lon="-3.600833" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt141" id="mwASE" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:The whole Alhambra Granada Spain.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"37.178056","longitude":"-3.600833","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[-3.600833,37.178056],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Granada]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:The whole Alhambra Granada Spain.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>44</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Granada" title="Granada">Granada</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Spain</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Greatest city of <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Al-Andalus" title="Al-Andalus">Al-Andalus</a>, the Moorish kingdom which then ruled nearly all of Iberia and parts of what is now France.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q8810" title="Granada (Q8810) on Wikidata"><img alt="Granada (Q8810) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Granada</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Granada" title="Granada on Wikipedia"><img alt="Granada on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwASI"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt142" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwASM" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"Niani"},"alt":{"wt":""},"directions":{"wt":"Guinea"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q3339489"},"content":{"wt":"Ibn Battuta's furthest journey into West Africa. At the time the town had a population around 100,000 and was the capital of the Mali Empire. Today there is only a village."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">11.37972</abbr><abbr class="longitude">-8.38417</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/11.37972/-8.38417/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="11.37972" data-lon="-8.38417" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt144" id="mwASQ" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"","group":"listing","latitude":"11.37972","longitude":"-8.38417","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[-8.38417,11.37972],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"Niani\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"\"}}"}}'>45</a> Niani<link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Guinea</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Ibn Battuta's furthest journey into West Africa. At the time the town had a population around 100,000 and was the capital of the Mali Empire. Today there is only a village.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q3339489" title="Niani village (Q3339489) on Wikidata"><img alt="Niani village (Q3339489) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Niani, Guinea</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Niani,_Guinea" title="Niani, Guinea on Wikipedia"><img alt="Niani, Guinea on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li> <li id="mwASU"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt145" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwASY" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"[[Timbuktu]]"},"directions":{"wt":"Mali"},"phone":{"wt":""},"tollfree":{"wt":""},"hours":{"wt":""},"price":{"wt":""},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q9427"},"content":{"wt":"Great trading city of the Mali Empire on the edge of the [[Sahara]], and a major center of Islamic scholarship in its heyday."}},"i":0}}]}'><abbr class="latitude">16.773333</abbr><abbr class="longitude">-2.999444</abbr><a class="mw-kartographer-maplink mw-kartographer-autostyled" data-mw-kartographer="maplink" data-style="osm-intl" href="/wiki/Special:Map/17/16.773333/-2.999444/en" data-zoom="17" data-lat="16.773333" data-lon="-2.999444" style="background: #258825;" data-overlays='["mask","around","buy","city","do","drink","eat","go","listing","other","see","sleep","vicinity","view"]' typeof="mw:Extension/maplink" about="#mwt147" id="mwASc" data-mw='{"name":"maplink","attrs":{"description":"[[File:Timbuktu Mosque Sankore.jpg|300px]]","group":"listing","latitude":"16.773333","longitude":"-2.999444","show":"mask,around,buy,city,do,drink,eat,go,listing,other,see,sleep,vicinity,view","zoom":"17"},"body":{"extsrc":"{\"type\":\"Feature\",\"geometry\":{\"coordinates\":[-2.999444,16.773333],\"type\":\"Point\"},\"properties\":{\"marker-size\":\"medium\",\"title\":\"[[Timbuktu]]\",\"marker-symbol\":\"-number-listing\",\"marker-color\":\"258825\",\"description\":\"[[File:Timbuktu Mosque Sankore.jpg|300px]]\"}}"}}'>46</a> <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Timbuktu" title="Timbuktu">Timbuktu</a><link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="listing-directions" style="font-style: italic;">Mali</bdi>). <bdi class="note listing-content">Great trading city of the Mali Empire on the edge of the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sahara" title="Sahara">Sahara</a>, and a major center of Islamic scholarship in its heyday.</bdi> <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q9427" title="Timbuktu (Q9427) on Wikidata"><img alt="Timbuktu (Q9427) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> Timbuktu</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:Timbuktu" title="Timbuktu on Wikipedia"><img alt="Timbuktu on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> </section></section><section data-mw-section-id="15" id="mwASg"><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2" id="mwAYU"><h2 id="The_Rihla">The Rihla</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Voyages_of_Ibn_Battuta&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: The Rihla" id="mwAYg">edit</a>]</div> After the West African journey, he settled in Tangier, worked as a judge, and wrote a book: <ul id="mwASo"><li id="mwASs"><bdi class="vcard" about="#mwt148" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwASw" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"listing\n","href":"./Template:Listing"},"params":{"name":{"wt":"The Rihla"},"alt":{"wt":"A Masterpiece to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling"},"wikidata":{"wt":"Q60797163"}},"i":0}}]}'> The Rihla<link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Has_map_markers"/> (<bdi class="nickname listing-alt" style="font-style: italic;">A Masterpiece to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling</bdi>). <a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/d:Q60797163" title="The Rihla (Q60797163) on Wikidata"><img alt="The Rihla (Q60797163) on Wikidata" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/16px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1050" data-file-height="590" data-file-type="drawing" height="9" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/32px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> The Rihla</bdi> on Wikipedia"}'><a href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/w:The_Rihla" title="The Rihla on Wikipedia"><img alt="The Rihla on Wikipedia" resource="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Antu_wikipedia.svg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/16px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" data-file-type="drawing" height="16" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/24px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Antu_wikipedia.svg/32px-Antu_wikipedia.svg.png 2x" class="mw-file-element"/></a> </bdi></li></ul> The work became well-known in the Muslim world, but was not much known in the West until the early 1800s. <link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:In_the_footsteps_of_explorers" about="#mwt149" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwAS4" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"PartOfItinerary","href":"./Template:PartOfItinerary"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"In the footsteps of explorers"}},"i":0}}]}'/> <link rel="mw:PageProp/Category" href="./Category:Itineraries" about="#mwt149"/> <div class="noprint" about="#mwt150" typeof="mw:Transclusion" id="mwAS8" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"outlineitinerary","href":"./Template:Outlineitinerary"},"params":{},"i":0}}]}'> <table id="outline_itinerary" class="article-status" style="border-style:dotted;"> <tbody><tr><td></td> <td>This <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Itineraries" title="Wikivoyage:Itineraries">itinerary</a> to Voyages of Ibn Battuta is an <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="//en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Outline_articles" title="Wikivoyage:Outline articles">outline</a> and needs more content. 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