The nasab is the patronymic and starts with bin or ibn, which means “son of”, or bint, which means “daughter of”. It acknowledges the father of the child. Matronymics are not used in Arabic. The nasab often follows the ism, so that you have, for example, Fahad ibn Abdul Aziz, which means “Fahad, son of Abdul Aziz”.

Ibn Battuta led a complete life while traveling. He studied and prayed; he practiced his legal profession; he had astonishing outdoor adventures; he married at least 10 times and left children growing up all over Afro-Eurasia.

China

Ibn battuta left his hometown tangiers in present day morocco because he was able to go to hijj, the aribic term for the pilgrimage , or journey to a holy place , that every able muslim must make to the city of mecca , in arabia , which is one of the 5 pillers that every muslim must take atleast once in thier life if …

Mecca

Ibn Battuta discovered during his pilgrimage that he loved to travel. He liked seeing new places, experiencing different cultures, and meeting new people.

From Cairo, Ibn Battuta set out via Upper Egypt to the Red Sea but then returned and visited Syria, there joining a caravan for Mecca. Having finished the pilgrimage in 1326, he crossed the Arabian Desert to Iraq, southern Iran, Azerbaijan, and Baghdad.

No, Ibn Battuta did not go to Japan. He claims to have traveled as far north in China as Beijing, though scholars debate whether this account is true….

Morocco

Ibn Battuta entered India through the high mountains of Afghanistan, following the footsteps of Turkish warriors who, a century earlier, had conquered the Hindu farming people of India and established the Sultanate of Delhi.

During his 29 years of exploration, he visited around 44 countries, including India. Meandering his way through several regions, Ibn Battuta reached the royal court of Mohammad Bin Tughlaq, the then ruler of Delhi. He was employed by the king and stayed here for around seven years.

This really was the end of Dar al-Islam for no territory east of this was ruled by a Muslim ruler. Here he stayed for about two weeks in the wooden walled town as a guest of the sultan. The sultan then provided him with supplies and sent Ibn Battuta on one of his own junks to China.

In the 14th century, the Moroccan wanderer Ibn Battuta spent nearly 30 years traveling some 75,000 miles across Africa, the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia.

1334

Born in Tangier, Morocco, Ibn Battuta came of age in a family of Islamic judges. In 1325, at age 21, he left his homeland for the Middle East. He intended to complete his hajj—the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca—but he also wished to study Islamic law along the way.

30 years

Young Ibn Battuta’s most important goal, as for most young students of his time, was to learn the Qur’an by heart: He refers many times in the Rihla to reciting the entire Qur’an aloud in one day while traveling—and a few times, when he felt he needed moral stiffening, twice.

Battuta contributed to the movement of Dar al Islam and preserved the influences that Islam had on the globe. His writings can be used as a window into the past for historians to see the world through his eyes as it was during this time period.

After a series of failures in the Maldive Islands and in India – having lost everything he owned to pirates and shipwrecks – Ibn Battuta resolved to go to China on his own. Muslim travelers, such as Ibn Battuta, knew that they could find Muslim hospitality in the major sea ports.

He set out to travel across the Dar al-Islam and help spread the word of Islam to developing countries that had picked up on the religion. Islam was growing, and as Battuta kept traveling, he was becoming more and more well-known.