<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Geographer, explorer </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Era </Th> <Td> Medieval era </Td> </Tr> <P> Ibn Battuta (or Ibn Baṭūṭah) (/ ˌɪbənbætˈtuːtɑː /; Arabic: محمد ابن بطوطة ‎; fully ʾAbū ʿAbd al - Lāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al - Lāh l - Lawātī ṭ - Ṭanǧī ibn Baṭūṭah; Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي بن بطوطة) (February 25, 1304--1368 or 1369) was a Berber Muslim Moroccan scholar and explorer who widely travelled the medieval world . Over a period of thirty years, Ibn Battuta visited most of the Islamic world and many non-Muslim lands, including North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and China . Near the end of his life, he dictated an account of his journeys, titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling (تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار, Tuḥfat an - Nuẓẓār fī Gharāʾib al - Amṣār wa ʿAjāʾib al - Asfār), usually simply referred to as The Travels (الرحلة, Rihla). This account of his journeys provides a picture of medieval civilizations that is still widely consulted today . </P> <P> All that is known about Ibn Battuta's life comes from the autobiographical information included in the account of his travels, which records that he was of Berber descent, born into a family of Islamic legal scholars in Tangier, Morocco, on 24 February 1304, during the reign of the Marinid dynasty . He claimed descent from a Berber tribe known as the Lawata . As a young man, he would have studied at a Sunni Maliki madh'hab (Islamic jurisprudence school), the dominant form of education in North Africa at that time . Maliki Muslims requested Ibn Battuta serve as their religious judge as he was from an area where it was practised . </P>

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