Books by Ibn Batuta

This book, translated from Arabic, is a description of cultural life and beauty as experienced by Ibn Buttuta during his travels throughout the Muslim world at the beginning of the 14th century.

Ibn Battuta was the greatest of the Arabian travellers of the Middle Ages. His narrative is among the most important of early Arabic texts, providing a primary source for the history and geography of the medieval Arab world.

An 1829 English edition of the work of the Arab traveller Ibn Battuta (1304-68/9), whose journeys may have reached as far as China and Zanzibar. There is doubt as to whether Ibn Battuta actually saw everything he described, but this account gives a fascinating world-view from the medieval period.

This four-volume edition of the Arabic text of the Journey of the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta (1304-68/9),with a French translation was published in 1853. In Volume 1, he describes his departure from Tangier and eventual arrival at Mecca, after which he decides to continue his travels.