“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
Ibn Battuta (1304-1377), The Travels of Ibn Battutah
75,000 Miles of Travel by Ibn Battuta
When it comes to globetrotting, even Marco Polo takes a back seat to this fourteenth-century voyageur. In the year 1349 a dusty Arab horseman rode slowly toward the city of Tangier on the North African coast. For Ibn Battuta, it was the end of a long journey.
Travelers of Al-Andalus: Abu Hamid Al-Garnati’s World of Wonders
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Suleiman ibn Rabi al-Qaysi, known more conveniently to posterity as Abu Hamid Al-Garnati and so named after his hometown of Granada (“Garnata”), sailed, caravanned, traded and trekked from the Arab West to the northern- and easternmost reaches of the Islamic world and beyond.
Islam's Path East: China
The majority of China's Muslims are Turkic peoples living in the vast Xinjiang region of northwest China. The rest are mainly Hui - either descendants of Chinese converts to Islam or the offspring of Chinese intermarriages with Muslim immigrants whose appearance is distinctly Chinese.
Conversion of the Maldives to Islam
The Maldives was converted to Islam in the year 1153 AD by a Muslim from Maghreb (North Africa) by the name of Abul Barakat Yoosuf Al Barbary
Rick Steves: Iran
Join Rick Steves as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran.
Cycling to Mecca from Macedonia for Hajj
Two Macedonian men have been training for two years for the 6-week journey from Macedonia to Saudi Arabia. Now they are pedaling to perform Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage.
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