Ibn Battuta's Travels
“The Gift of the Beholders on the Peculiarities of the Regions and the Marvels of Journeys.”
In Arabic, Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, or Rihlah (Travels) for short.
Ibn Battuta was a medieval Muslim traveler who wrote one of the world’s most famous travel logs, the Riḥlah. This work describes the people, places, and cultures he encountered in his journeys along some 75,000 miles (120,000 km) across and beyond the Islamic world.
Ibn Battuta’s Riḥlah has tremendous documentary value because of its detailed accounts of social, cultural, and political aspects of much of the Islamic world during the 14th century. His unique and mostly reliable historiography is valuable for the study of history.








