| rdfs:comment | - Battuta covered more miles than the better-known Marco Polo, an estimated 75,000 miles (120,000 km), although Polo went far beyond the borders of his religious roots. Where Polo used the Pax Monglica and the friendship of the Great Khan as his passport, Ibn Battuta used the ubiquity of his faith.
- Ibn Baṭūṭah (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي بن بطوطة, ʾAbū ʿAbd al-Lāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Lāh l-Lawātī ṭ-Ṭanǧī ibn Baṭūṭah), or simply Ibn butti (ابن بطوطة) (February 25, 1304–1368 or 1369), was a Muslim Moroccan explorer, known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla (lit. "Journey"). Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands; his journeys including trips to the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo. Ibn Battuta is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. He journey
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| abstract | - Battuta covered more miles than the better-known Marco Polo, an estimated 75,000 miles (120,000 km), although Polo went far beyond the borders of his religious roots. Where Polo used the Pax Monglica and the friendship of the Great Khan as his passport, Ibn Battuta used the ubiquity of his faith.
- Ibn Baṭūṭah (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي بن بطوطة, ʾAbū ʿAbd al-Lāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Lāh l-Lawātī ṭ-Ṭanǧī ibn Baṭūṭah), or simply Ibn butti (ابن بطوطة) (February 25, 1304–1368 or 1369), was a Muslim Moroccan explorer, known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla (lit. "Journey"). Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands; his journeys including trips to the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo. Ibn Battuta is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. He journeyed more than miles ( km), a figure unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the coming of the Steam Age some 450 years later.
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