Ibn Battuta — "The children in this land run around naked, even in the marketplace. It is a str…"
The children in this land run around naked, even in the marketplace. It is a strange sight to behold.
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"The women of the Maldives go about naked from the waist up, and they are the most beautiful women I have ever seen."
"The Chinese are skilled in crafts, but they are not a people of religion."
"In Mali, I saw a man eat an entire roasted sheep by himself, and then drink a bucket of sour milk. The people there have stomachs like camels."
"I was once given a parrot that could speak many languages. It was a very intelligent bird, and I enjoyed its company."
"I set out alone finding no companion to cheer the way with friendly intercourse. and no party of travelers with whom to associate."
About Ibn Battuta (1304-1369)
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.