Ibn Battuta — "Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
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"I was once given a parrot that could speak many languages. It was a very intelligent bird, and I enjoyed its company."
"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!"
"The fruits in this land are very sweet and juicy. I ate so many that my stomach ached."
"They eat human flesh, and they consider it a delicacy."
"The people of this city are very skilled in craftsmanship. They make beautiful pottery and intricate textiles."
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.