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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Ibn Battuta, Paul Bowles, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Alexander Spotswood, Mohamed Choukri, Mohamed Mrabet, Carlos Castrodeza, Marcellus of Tangier, Moumen Smihi, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Joseph A. McPhillips III, Jean-Luc Melenchon, Sanaa Hamri, Emmanuel Hocquard, Malika El Aroud, Driss Temsamani, Leon Benzaquen, William "Tangier" Smith, Hichem Hamdouchi, Ralph Benmergui, Cristobal Acosta, Fernand Melgar, Ali Boussaboun, Ismail Sbai, Jane Bowles, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, Charles Laurence, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Yousef El Kalai, Hagen Schulze, Alexandre Rey Colaco, Hassan Akesbi, Jamal Zougam, Bibiana Fernandez, Ahmad ibn Ajiba, Karim Debbagh, Jorge Colaco, Omar Berdouni, Heinz Tietjen, Cassian of Tangier, Ali Yata, Jose Hernandez, Jose Antonio Peteiro Freire, Elena Benarroch, Abdeslam Boulaich. Excerpt: Hajji Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: ), or simply Ibn Battuta, also known as Shams ad-Din (February 25, 1304-1368 or 1369), was a Moroccan Berber Islamic scholar and traveller known for the record of his travels and excursions published in the Rihla (literally, "The Journey"). His journeys spanned nearly thirty years and covered almost the entire known Islamic world and beyond, extending from North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance far surpassing that of his predecessors and his near-contemporary Marco Polo. On account of the Rihla, Ibn Battuta is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. He travelled more than 75,000 miles (121,000 km), a figure unlikely to have been surpassed by any traveller until the coming of the Steam Age some 450 years later. A 13th century book illustration produced in Baghdad by al-Wasiti showing a group of pilgrims on a Hajj.The only biographical inf...
