The Moroccan jurist Ibn Battuta left Tangier for the pilgrimage to Mecca and continued through interconnected scholarly, courtly, pilgrimage, and commercial networks across Africa and Eurasia. His journeys took him through the Middle East, East Africa, Central and South Asia, the Maldives, Southeast Asia, and China before later travels in al-Andalus and the Mali Empire.
Sources and further reading
Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325–1354, Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University. Selected English translation of the Rihla supporting the departure date, pilgrimage purpose, major destinations, and return across the Sahara.
The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Office of Resources for International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Phase-by-phase chronology and teaching reconstruction based substantially on Ross Dunn’s historical study of the journeys.