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List of places visited by Ibn Battuta

This is a List of places visited by Ibn Battuta in the years 1325–1353.

The Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta set out from his native town of Tangiers on a pilgrimage to Mecca in June 1325, when he was 21 years old. On completing his first hajj he continued travelling, only returning to Morocco twenty four years later in 1349. In 1350, Battuta visited Al-Andalus and then between 1352-1353 he crossed the Sahara Desert to visit the Kingdom of Mali in West Africa. On his return to Fes he dictated an account of his travels to Ibn Juzayy, a scribe employed by Abu Inan Faris, the Marinid ruler of Morocco.

Ibn Juzayy's Arabic text was translated into English by Hamilton Gibb and Charles Beckingham and published by the Hakluyt Society in four volumes between 1958 and 1994.

Places visited by Ibn Battuta

Over his lifetime, Ibn Battuta travelled over and visited around 40 present-day countries.

In the following list the Romanization used by Gibb and Beckingham is given in parentheses. The states are modern. Within each section the towns are listed in the order that they are first mentioned in Ibn Battuta's rihla. Historians such as Hamilton Gibb and Ross Dunn have argued that some parts of Ibn Battuta's rihla are fictional and it is extremely unlikely that he visited all the places that he claimed. The cities for which these scholars argue that Ibn Battuta's visit was fictional are flagged as "disputed" in the list below.

Maghreb

Mashriq

  • Alexandria (al-IskandarÄ«ya), Egypt
  • Damanhur (DamanhÅ«r), Egypt
  • Fuwwah (Fawwā), Egypt
  • Ibyar (Abyār), Egypt
  • El Mahalla El Kubra (al-Maḥalla al-KabÄ«ra), Egypt
  • Damietta (Dimyāt), Egypt
  • Faraskur (FāriskÅ«r), Egypt
  • Sebennytos or Samannoud (SamannÅ«d), Egypt
  • Cairo (Miá¹£r), Egypt
  • Biba, Egypt
  • Oxyrhynchus (al-Bahnasa), Egypt
  • Minya (Munyat Ibn Khaṣīb), Egypt
  • Mallawi (ManlāwÄ«), Egypt
  • Manfalut (ManfalÅ«á¹­), Egypt
  • Asyut (AsyÅ«á¹­), Egypt
  • Akhmim (IkhmÄ«m), Egypt
  • Hu (HÅ«), Egypt
  • Qena (Qinā), Egypt
  • Qus (QÅ«á¹£), Egypt
  • Luxor (al-Aqá¹£ur), Egypt
  • Esna (Asnā), Egypt
  • Edfu (AdfÅ«), Egypt
  • Ê¿Aydhab (‘Aidhāb), Egypt
  • Bilbeis (Balbais), Egypt
  • Gaza (Ghazza), Gaza Strip, Palestine
  • Hebron (al-KhalÄ«l), West Bank, Palestine
  • Bethlehem (Bait Laḥm), West Bank, Palestine
  • Jerusalem (al-Quds)
  • Ramla (al-Ramla), Israel
  • Nablus (Nābulus ), West Bank, Palestine
  • Ajloun (‘Ajlun), Jordan
  • Tyre (SÅ«r), Lebanon
  • Sidon (á¹¢aidā), Lebanon
  • Tripoli (Aá¹­rābulus), Lebanon
  • Hama (Ḥamāh), Syria
  • Aleppo (Ḥalab), Syria
  • Antioch (Antākiya), Turkey
  • Bagras (Bughrās), Turkey
  • Latakia (al-LādhiqÄ«ya), Syria
  • Baalbek (Ba‘labakk), Lebanon
  • Damascus, Syria
  • Al-Kiswah (al-Kiswa), Syria
  • Al Karak (Al-Karak), Jordon
  • Ma'an (Ma‘ān), Jordon

Arabian Peninsula

  • Tabuk (TabÅ«k), Saudi Arabia
  • Medina (al-MadÄ«na), Saudi Arabia
  • Rabigh (Rābigh), Saudi Arabia
  • Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • Jeddah (Judda), Saudi Arabia
  • ZabÄ«d (ZabÄ«d), Yemen
  • Jibla (Jubla), Yemen
  • Ta'izz (Ta'izz), Yemen
  • Sana'a (á¹¢an'ā'), Yemen Disputed.
  • Aden ('Adan), Yemen
  • Salalah (Zafāri), Oman
  • Qalhat (Qalhāt), Oman
  • Nizwa (Nazwā), Oman
  • Bahrain (al-Baḥrain), Bahrain Adjacent shore.
  • Qatif (al-Quá¹­aif), Saudi Arabia
  • Hofuf or al-Hasa (Hajar), Saudi Arabia
  • Al-Yamama (al-Yamama), Saudi Arabia

Iran and Iraq

  • Najaf (al-Najaf), Iraq
  • Basra (al-Basra), Iraq
  • Abadan ('Abbādān), Iran
  • Bandar-e Mahshahr (MāchÅ«l), Iran
  • Ramhormoz (Rāmiz), Iran
  • Shushtar (Tustar), Iran
  • Izeh (Īdhaj), Iran
  • Isfahan (Iá¹£fahān), Iran
  • Shiraz (ShÄ«rāz), Iran
  • Kazerun (KāzarÅ«n), Iran
  • Kufa (al-KÅ«fa), Iraq
  • Hillah (al-Ḥilla), Iraq
  • Baghdad (Baghdād), Iraq
  • Tabriz (TabrÄ«z), Iran
  • Mosul (al-Mawá¹£il), Iraq
  • Cizre (JazÄ«rat Ibn 'Omar), Turkey
  • Sinjar (Sinjār), Iraq
  • Mardin (MārdÄ«n), Turkey
  • Hormuz (New Hurmuz), Iran
  • Lar (Lār), Iran

East Africa

Anatolia

Central Asia

  • Feodosia (al-Kafā), Ukraine/Russia
  • Stary Krym (al-Qiram), Ukraine/Russia
  • Azov (Azāk), Russia
  • Majar (al-Māchar), Russia
  • Pyatigorsk (Bish Dagh), Russia
  • Bolghar (Bulghār), Russia Disputed.
  • Astrakhan (al-Ḥājj Tarhān), Russia
  • New Sarai (al-Sarā), Russia
  • Sarayshyk (SarāchÅ«q), Kazakhstan
  • Konye-Urgench (Khwārizm), Turkmenistan
  • Bukhara (Bukhārā), Uzbekistan
  • Qarshi (Nakhshab), Uzbekistan
  • Samarkand (Samarqand), Uzbekistan
  • Termez (Tirmidh), Uzbekistan
  • Balkh (Balkh), Afghanistan
  • Herat (Harāt), Afghanistan Disputed.
  • Torbat-e Jam (al-Jām), Iran Disputed.
  • Tus (Ṭūs), Iran Disputed.
  • Nishapur (NaisābÅ«r), Iran Disputed.
  • Bastam (Bisṭām), Iran Disputed.
  • Kunduz (QundÅ«z), Afghanistan
  • Ghazni (Ghazna), Afghanistan
  • Kabul (Kābul), Afghanistan

South Asia

  • Uch (Ūja), Pakistan
  • Multan (Multān), Pakistan
  • Abohar (AbÅ«har), India
  • Pakpattan (Ajudahan), Pakistan
  • Sirsa (SarasatÄ«), India
  • Hansi (ḤānsÄ«), India
  • Delhi (DihlÄ«), India
  • Aligarh (Kuwil), India
  • Kannauj (Qinauj), India
  • Gwalior (Guyālyur), India
  • Ujjain (Ujain), India
  • Daulatabad (Dawlat Ābād), India
  • Khambhat or Cambay (Kinbāya), India
  • Gandhar (Qandahār), India
  • Honnavar (Hinawr), India
  • Mangalore (ManjarÅ«r), India
  • Kannur or Cannanore, India
  • Kozhikode or Calicut (QāliqÅ«t), India
  • Kollam or Quilon (Kawlam), India
  • Malé (Mahal), Maldives
  • Puttalam (Baṭṭāla), Sri Lanka
  • Adam's Peak (SarandÄ«b), Sri Lanka
  • Dondra Head (DÄ«nawar), Sri Lanka
  • Chittagong, Bangladesh or possibly Satgaon, India (Sudkāwān) Identification of Sudkāwān uncertain.
  • Sonargaon (Sunarkāwān), Bangladesh

Southeast Asia

China

  • Quanzhou (ZaitÅ«n), China
  • Guangzhou or Canton (Ṣīn al-Ṣīn), China
  • Fuzhou (QanjanfÅ«), China Uncertain.
  • Hangzhou (al-Khansā), China Disputed.
  • Beijing (Khān Bāliq), China Disputed.

Al-Andalus

Mali Empire and West Africa

  • Taghaza (Taghāzā), Mali
  • Oualata (Īwālātan), Mauritania
  • Timbuktu (TunbuktÅ«), Mali
  • Gao (Kaukau), Mali
  • Takedda (Takaddā), Niger
  • Tuat (Tawāt), Algeria

Itinerary 1325–1332

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Itinerary 1332–1346

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Itinerary 1349–1353

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References

Sources

  • . First published in 1986, .
  • This volume was translated by Beckingham after Gibb's death in 1971. A separate index was published in 2000.