Battuta in a sentence

She was awarded the Ibn Battuta Award for Excellence in Media in 2013.

Although Ibn Battuta never mentioned this visit specifically, when he heard the story it may have planted a seed in his mind as he then decided to cross the Sahara and visit the Muslim kingdoms on its far side.

Another pious man Sheikh Murshidi interpreted the meaning of a dream of Ibn Battuta that he was meant to be a world traveller.

At the meeting in 1345 CE, Ibn Battuta noted that Shah Jalal was tall and lean, fair in complexion and lived by the mosque in a cave, where his only item of value was a goat he kept for milk, butter, and yogurt.

Following the overthrow of the sultanate, Ibn Battuta had no choice but to leave India.

Guangzhou was visited by the Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta during his 14th-century journey around the world;sfn he detailed the process by which the Chinese constructed their large ships in the port's shipyards.

Ibn Battuta also noted the great wealth of the area thanks to the pearling industry.

Ibn Battuta disapproved of the fact that female slaves, servants and even the daughters of the sultan went about exposing parts of their bodies not befitting a Muslim.

Ibn Battuta often experienced culture shock in regions he visited where the local customs of recently converted peoples did not fit in with his orthodox Muslim background.

Ibn Battuta praised the craftsmen and their silk and porcelain ; as well as fruits such as plums and watermelons and the advantages of paper money.sfn He described the manufacturing process of large ships in the city of Quanzhou.

Ibn Battuta recorded that while in Bulghar he wanted to travel further north into the land of darkness.

Ibn Battuta served as a qadi or judge for six years during Muhammad bin Tughluq's reign Muhammad bin Tughluq was renowned as the wealthiest man in the Muslim world at that time.

Ibn Battuta's ship almost sank on embarking from Sri Lanka, only for the vessel that came to his rescue to suffer an attack by pirates.

Ibn Battuta statement of "from it kuskusu and porridge are made" This quotation contains what may be the earliest mention of couscous (kuskusu) in Western Africa.

Ibn Battuta talked his way into this expedition, which would be his first beyond the boundaries of the Islamic world.

In 1327, Ibn Battuta visited Basra, which was in decline with the great mosque being convert out of town.

In 1345 Arab traveler Ibn Battuta traveled China and journeyed through the Abe Hayat river (Grand Canal) up to the capital Khanbalik (Beijing).

Includes the text of Ibn Battuta's account of his visit to China.

It was so called, wrote Ibn Battuta, because many Indian slaves died there of snow cold, as they were marched across that mountain range.

Law (1967) pp.182–4 Through the descriptions of Leo Africanus and even Ibn Battuta – despite his visit to the river – the myth connecting the Niger to the Nile persisted.