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On This Day in History June 13, 1325: Berber Maghrebi scholar and explorer Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Lawātī al-Ṭanjī ibn Baṭṭūṭah, better known as Ibn Battuta (February 24, 1304 - 1368/69 or 1377) begins his epic journey that would be chronicled in the Riḥlah (Travels.)
Though Ibn Battuta started on his journey from Tangiers on pilgrimage to Mecca, he never stopped traveling. It is believed that during the 24 years that Ibn Battuta was traveling, he covered almost 75,000 miles (120,000 km) and traveled as far East as China and far South as Africa. He would be known as “the traveler of Islam.”
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Timbuktu
At the gates of the Sahara. The city of 333 saints. Once a center of culture and trade, house of universities and riches in the Mali and Songhai empires. As it once emerged from the sands, now being swallowed slowly by them.
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