Ibn e Batuta || Episode 01 || Safarnama || Tareekhi Waqiat

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Born in 1304 in the Moroccan port of Tangier, Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta known to history simply as Ibn Battuta, was the greatest traveler to ever roam the earth.
In an era when precious few possessed the means or the courage to submit to curiosity and venture off the map's edge, Ibn Battuta set out as a young man to complete Islam's traditional pilgrimage to Mecca, and ultimately spent the better part of his life wandering.
But Ibn Battuta is known to us today not just because he traveled, but because he recorded for posterity all that he saw along the way.
In nearly 30 years on the road, Ibn Battuta traversed North Africa, Egypt, and the Swahili coast; reached Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula, visiting Palestine and Greater Syria en route; swung through Anatolia and Persia to Afghanistan; crossed the Himalayas to India, then Sri Lanka and the Maldives; and reached the eastern coast of China before turning around and zigzagging all the way back to Morocco. Not yet satisfied, he added on a few more years criss-crossing the Sahara. He traveled farther and discovered more than his famous contemporary Marco Polo.
Even before the term existed, Ibn Battuta lived as a true "Renaissance man." A trained qadi, or judge, he was also proficient in geography, botany, and Islamic theology, and possessed a social scientist's shrewd capacities of observation. But the primary reason Ibn Battuta lives on today is his writing.