The women of this country do not cover their heads even when they are in the house of the king. They are beautiful, and their bodies are well-proportioned.
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"I was once shipwrecked on an island where the people were cannibals. I managed to escape by pretending to be mad."
"The people of this city are very skilled in craftsmanship. They make beautiful pottery and intricate textiles."
"I was greatly astonished at these people, and their women, who do not observe any modesty towards men."
"I saw a fish in this land that had legs and could walk on land. It was a most extraordinary creature."
"I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and I have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge."
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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