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Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354
Here begins Ibn Battuta’s travels
I left Tangier, my birthplace, on Thursday, 2nd Rajab 725 [June 14, 1325], being at that time twenty-two years of age [22 lunar years; 21 and 4 months by solar reckoning], with the intention of making the Pilgrimage to the Holy House [at Mecca] and the Tomb of the Prophet [at Medina].

I set out alone, finding no companion to cheer the way with friendly intercourse, and no party of travellers with whom to associate myself. Swayed by an overmastering impulse within me, and a long-cherished desire to visit those glorious sanctuaries, I resolved to quit all my friends and tear myself away from my home. As my parents were still alive, it weighed grievously upon me to part from them, and both they and I were afflicted with sorrow.

Ibn Battuta – On reaching the city of Tilimsan [Tlemsen], whose sultan at that time was Abu Tashifin, I found there two ambassadors of the Sultan of Tunis, who left the city on the same day that I arrived. One of the brethren having advised me to accompany them, I consulted the will of God in this matter, and after a stay of three days in the city to procure all that I needed, I rode after them with all speed. I overtook them at the town of Miliana, where we stayed ten days, as both ambassadors fell sick on account of the summer heats. When we set out again, one of them grew worse, and died after we had stopped for three nights by a stream four miles from Miliana. I left their party there and pursued my journey, with a company of merchants from Tunis.
Ibn Battuta travels overland from Algiers to Tunis.
On reaching al-Jaza’ir [Algiers] we halted outside the town for a few days, until the former party rejoined us, when we went on together through the Mitija [the fertile plain behind Algiers] to the mountain of Oaks [Jurjura] and so reached Bijaya [Bougiel.

Ibn Battuta part 55

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Ibn Battuta praises his natural lord, the sultan of MoroccoMoreover, God has augmented the honour and excellence of the Maghrib by the imamate of our master, the Commander of the Faithful, who has spread...

Ibn Battuta part 54

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For I assure you that mutton in Egypt is sold at eighteen ounces for a dirham nuqra, which equals in value six dirhams of the Maghrib, whereas in the Maghrib meat is sold, when...

Ibn Battuta part 53

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The khatun declines to return to her husband Uzbeg KhanWhen it became clear to the Turks who were in the khatun’s company that she professed her father’s religion and wished to stay with him,...

Ibn Battuta part 52

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He took my hand and said to the Greek (who knew the Arabic tongue), “Say to this Saracen (meaning Muslim), ‘I clasp the hand which has entered Jerusalem and the foot which has walked...

Ibn Battuta part 51

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Each monastery possesses pious endowments for the clothing and maintenance of the devotees. Inside every monastery there is a small convent designed for the ascetic retreat of the king who built it, for most...

Ibn Battuta part 50

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It has thirteen gates and a sacred enclosure, which is about a mile long and closed by a great gate. No one is prevented from entering this enclosure, and indeed I went into it...

Ibn Battuta part 49

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Ibn Battuta describes Constantinople.The city is enormous in size, and in two parts separated by a great river , in which there is a rising and ebbing tide. In former times there was a...

Ibn Battuta part 48

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In the midst of the hall three men were standing to whom those four men delivered me. These took hold of my garments as the others had done, and on a signal from another...

Ibn Battuta part 47

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Our entry into Constantinople the Great was made about noon or a little later, and they rang their bells until the very skies shook with the mingling of their sounds. When we reached the...

Ibn Battuta part 46

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His horsemen were divided into squadrons, two hundred horsemen in each squadron. Over them was a commander, who had in front of him ten of the horsemen, fully accoutred in armour, each leading a...

Eumieus` Tale 2

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