I have travelled to many lands and seen many things, but I have never seen a people so fond of bathing as the Indians. They bathe even in the cold of winter!
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"The women of this country are very beautiful, and they are treated with more respect than the men. They are not veiled, and they have no shame."
"I was once mistaken for a king in this land and was given many gifts and honors. It was a very pleasant mistake."
"The women of this city are very beautiful, but they are not modest."
"The people of this city are very fond of music and dancing."
"I saw in this city many things that are forbidden in Islam."
Moroccan Muslim scholar and explorer whose Rihla (travels) covered ~75,000 miles across the Islamic world from Mali to China — the most-traveled person of the medieval world. Closely associated with Marco Polo (his Venetian counterpart, traveling 50 years earlier in the opposite direction). For an intellectual contrast, see medieval European Christian insularity, the sheltered monastic-feudal worldview of 14th-century Latin Christendom — Ibn Battuta's 30-year journey demonstrates that the 14th-century Dar al-Islam was a single intellectual ecosystem from West Africa to Beijing, while medieval Europe was still tribal and parochial. The cleanest 'connectedness vs insularity' contrast in pre-modern history — Battuta could find a familiar Maliki judge in any city from Mali to Sumatra.
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