Ibn Battuta

Mm.

Um, and it is also, you know, like, uh, you know, uh, I think 15th, or 15th or 16th century traveler from Morocco, Ibn Battuta, writes about, you know, how the masses would eat a breakfast of khichdi.

Uh, so that is something, uh, v- various versions of khichdi are available across the country.

Hyderabad has its own version, which is eaten with minced, uh, meat and, and something called khatta, which is, like, a, a very, very tangy kind of a, a side dish made with, uh, sesame seeds and tamarind and all, all kinds of, uh, ingredients.

In the second version, not any less dramatic, both Razia and Altunia were captured and put to death by Bahram Shah after losing the battle for Delhi.

Ibn Battuta visited her gravesite, which is on the Yumuna river, and states that the people in the region had made her into a saint and erected a dome over her burial place, which was visited by supplicants who pray there for blessings.

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Nothing for a long time followed from these discoveries, and indeed almost up to the present day his accounts were received with incredulity, and he himself was regarded more as Marco Milione than as Marco Polo.

Extensive as were Marco Polo's travels, they were yet exceeded in extent, though not in variety, by those of the greatest Arabian traveler, Muhammad ibn Battuta, a native of Tangier, who began his travels in 1334 as part of the ordinary duty of a good Mohammedan to visit the holy city of Mecca.

While at Alexandria, he met a learned sage named Borhan Eden, to whom he expressed his desire to travel.

borhan said to him you must then visit my brother fered eden and my brother rokin eden in scindia and my brother borhan eden in china when you see them present my compliments to them Owing mainly to the fact that the Tatar princes had adopted Islamism instead of Christianity, after the failure of Gregory X to send Christian teachers to China, Ibn Battuta was ultimately enabled to greet all three brothers of Borhan Eden.

Indeed, he performed a more extraordinary exploit, for he was enabled to convey the greetings of the sheikh Kawan Eden, whom he met in China, to a relative of his residing in the Sudan.

during the thirty years of his travels he visited the holy land armenia the crimea constantinople which he visited in company with a greek princess who married one of the tatar khans bokhara afghanistan and delhi here he found favor with the emperor mohammed inglak who appointed him a judge and sent him on an embassy to china at first overland but as this was found too dangerous a route he went ultimately from calicut to biassalon the maldives and sumatra to zaitun then the great port of china civil war having broken out he returned by the same route to calicut but dared not face the emperor and went on to ormuz and mecca and returned to tangier in thirteen forty nine but even then his taste for travel had not been exhausted he soon set out for spain and worked his way through morocco across the sahara to the sudan He traveled along the Niger, which he took for the Nile, and visited Timbuktu.

Por eso es recordado.

Ibn Battuta was a Moroccan traveler who left his home in Tanger in 1325 at the age of 21 and practically did not stop traveling for the next 30 years.

He traveled approximately 117,000 kilometers, which is equivalent to almost three laps around the Earth.

traveled more than Marco Polo, more than Sheng He, and probably more than any other person in the pre-industrial world.

It is one of the most valuable primary sources that we possess to understand the medieval Islamic world.

He speaks to us of commercial routes, political systems, cultural practices, religious diversity, all documented by someone who really saw it and understood the context.

Ibn Battuta traveled as an observer and participant, not as a conqueror.

He lived in the places he visited.

It specialized in exports like sandalwood, ebony, ambergris and ivory.

And Ibn Battuta visited there, right?

He did.

And he described a custom that really highlights its sophisticated trade mechanism.

And slaves.

And slaves, yes.

Captured through raids, they remained a persistent article of export, as noted by travelers like Ibn Battuta.

Finally, let's revisit the cloth trade because it was enormous, partly imported, partly local.

Wind in the Willows makes a brief appearance.

Ibn Battuta, the great Islamic traveler from the Middle Ages.

So all these people, like real people show up and then like, I don't even know what you would call them, figures from history and stories show up as well.

And the demons of your dark thoughts are in pursuit.

I got an email while I was traveling, like I was in Italy and then taking a rest day.

And I got an email from a writer who I had to have some correspondence with Tim McIntosh Smith.

And he had done the translation of Ibn Battuta's journeys.

And he, I hadn't heard from him for the longest time and then I suddenly, when I was on the trip, I heard I got this email from him and he quoted a hadith that says if people knew the blessings that travelers enjoyed, then everyone would be on the road.

Nothing for a long time followed from these discoveries, and indeed almost up to the present day his accounts were received with incredulity, and he himself was regarded more as Marco Milione than as Marco Polo.

Extensive as were Marco Polo's travels, they were yet exceeded in extent, though not in variety, by those of the greatest Arabian traveler, Muhammad ibn Battuta, a native of Tangier, who began his travels in 1334 as part of the ordinary duty of a good Mohammedan to visit the holy city of Mecca.

While at Alexandria, he met a learned sage named Borhan Eden, to whom he expressed his desire to travel.

borhan said to him you must then visit my brother ferid eden and my brother rokin eden in scindia and my brother borhan eden in china when you see them present my compliments to them Owing mainly to the fact that the Tatar princes had adopted Islamism instead of Christianity, after the failure of Gregory X to send Christian teachers to China, Ibn Battuta was ultimately enabled to greet all three brothers of Borhan Eden.

Indeed, he performed a more extraordinary exploit, for he was enabled to convey the greetings of the sheikh Kawan Eden, whom he met in China, to a relative of his residing in the Sudan.

During the thirty years of his travels, he visited the Holy Land, Armenia, the Crimea, Constantinople, which he visited in company with a Greek princess who married one of the Tatar Khans, Bokhara, Afghanistan, and Delhi.

Nothing for a long time followed from these discoveries, and indeed almost up to the present day his accounts were received with incredulity, and he himself was regarded more as Marco Milione than as Marco Polo.

Extensive as were Marco Polo's travels, they were yet exceeded in extent, though not in variety, by those of the greatest Arabian traveler, Muhammad ibn Battuta, a native of Tangier, who began his travels in 1334 as part of the ordinary duty of a good Mohammedan to visit the holy city of Mecca.

While at Alexandria, he met a learned sage named Borhan Eden, to whom he expressed his desire to travel.

borhan said to him you must then visit my brother fered eden and my brother rokin eden in scindia and my brother borhan eden in china when you see them present my compliments to them Owing mainly to the fact that the Tatar princes had adopted Islamism instead of Christianity, after the failure of Gregory X to send Christian teachers to China, Ibn Battuta was ultimately enabled to greet all three brothers of Borhan Eden.

Indeed, he performed a more extraordinary exploit, for he was enabled to convey the greetings of the sheikh Kawan Eden, whom he met in China, to a relative of his residing in the Sudan.

During the thirty years of his travels, he visited the Holy Land, Armenia, the Crimea, Constantinople, which he visited in company with a Greek princess who married one of the Tatar Khans, Bokhara, Afghanistan, and Delhi.

And we've seen a little bit, you know, on this show, we've talked, we've had episodes where people have gone to places and they think about those places in very religious or religious cultural ways.

Ibn Battuta did it.

David Livingston in Africa, he did it.

And Leo Africanus, who, of course, went to the Vatican, he did it as well.