This is a List of places visited by Ibn Battuta in the years 1325–1353.
The Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta set out from his native town of Tangiers on a pilgrimage to Mecca in June 1325, when he was 21 years old. On completing his first hajj he continued travelling, only returning to Morocco twenty four years later in 1349. In 1350, Battuta visited Al-Andalus and then between 1352-1353 he crossed the Sahara Desert to visit the Kingdom of Mali in West Africa. On his return to Fes he dictated an account of his travels to Ibn Juzayy, a scribe employed by Abu Inan Faris, the Marinid ruler of Morocco.
Ibn Juzayy's Arabic text was translated into English by Hamilton Gibb and Charles Beckingham and published by the Hakluyt Society in four volumes between 1958 and 1994.; ; ;
Places visited by Ibn Battuta Over his lifetime, Ibn Battuta travelled over and visited around 40 present-day countries.
In the following list the Romanization used by Gibb and Beckingham is given in parentheses. The states are modern. Within each section the towns are listed in the order that they are first mentioned in Ibn Battuta's rihla. Historians such as Hamilton Gibb and Ross Dunn have argued that some parts of Ibn Battuta's rihla are fictional and it is extremely unlikely that he visited all the places that he claimed. The cities for which these scholars argue that Ibn Battuta's visit was fictional are flagged as "disputed" in the list below.
Maghreb
Tangier, Morocco Tlemcen (Tilimsān), Algeria Miliana (Milyāna), Algeria Algiers (al-Jazā'ir), Algeria Béjaïa (Bijāya), Algeria Constantine (Qusanṭīna), Algeria Annaba (Būna), Algeria Tunis, Tunisia Sousse (Sūsa), Tunisia Sfax (Ṣafāqus), Tunisia Gabès (Qābis), Tunisia Tripoli (Aṭrābulus), Libya Taza (Tāzā), Morocco Fez (Fās), Morocco Ceuta (Sabta), Spain Marrakesh (Marrākush), Morocco Salé (Salā), Morocco Meknes (Miknāsa), Morocco Sijilmasa (Sijilmāsa), Morocco
Mashriq
Alexandria (al-Iskandarīya), Egypt Damanhur (Damanhūr), Egypt Fuwwah (Fawwā), Egypt Ibyar (Abyār), Egypt El Mahalla El Kubra (al-Maḥalla al-Kabīra), Egypt Damietta (Dimyāt), Egypt Faraskur (Fāriskūr), Egypt Sebennytos or Samannoud (Samannūd), Egypt Cairo (Miṣr), Egypt Biba, Egypt Oxyrhynchus (al-Bahnasa), Egypt Minya (Munyat Ibn Khaṣīb), Egypt Mallawi (Manlāwī), Egypt Manfalut (Manfalūṭ), Egypt Asyut (Asyūṭ), Egypt Akhmim (Ikhmīm), Egypt Hu (Hū), Egypt Qena (Qinā), Egypt Qus (Qūṣ), Egypt Luxor (al-Aqṣur), Egypt Esna (Asnā), Egypt Edfu (Adfū), Egypt ʿAydhab (‘Aidhāb), Egypt Bilbeis (Balbais), Egypt Gaza (Ghazza), Gaza Strip, Palestine Hebron (al-Khalīl), West Bank, Palestine Bethlehem (Bait Laḥm), West Bank, Palestine Jerusalem (al-Quds) Ramla (al-Ramla), Israel Nablus (Nābulus ), West Bank, Palestine Ajloun (‘Ajlun), Jordan Tyre (Sūr), Lebanon Sidon (Ṣaidā), Lebanon Tripoli (Aṭrābulus), Lebanon Hama (Ḥamāh), Syria Aleppo (Ḥalab), Syria Antioch (Antākiya), Turkey Bagras (Bughrās), Turkey Latakia (al-Lādhiqīya), Syria Baalbek (Ba‘labakk), Lebanon Damascus, Syria Al-Kiswah (al-Kiswa), Syria Al Karak (Al-Karak), Jordon Ma'an (Ma‘ān), Jordon
Arabian Peninsula
Tabuk (Tabūk), Saudi Arabia Medina (al-Madīna), Saudi Arabia Rabigh (Rābigh), Saudi Arabia Mecca, Saudi Arabia Jeddah (Judda), Saudi Arabia Zabīd (Zabīd), Yemen Jibla (Jubla), Yemen Ta'izz (Ta'izz), Yemen Sana'a (Ṣan'ā'), Yemen Disputed. Aden ('Adan), Yemen Salalah (Zafāri), Oman Qalhat (Qalhāt), Oman Nizwa (Nazwā), Oman Bahrain (al-Baḥrain), Bahrain Adjacent shore. Qatif (al-Quṭaif), Saudi Arabia Hofuf or al-Hasa (Hajar), Saudi Arabia Al-Yamama (al-Yamama), Saudi Arabia
Iran and Iraq
Najaf (al-Najaf), Iraq Basra (al-Basra), Iraq Abadan ('Abbādān), Iran Bandar-e Mahshahr (Māchūl), Iran Ramhormoz (Rāmiz), Iran Shushtar (Tustar), Iran Izeh (Īdhaj), Iran Isfahan (Iṣfahān), Iran Shiraz (Shīrāz), Iran Kazerun (Kāzarūn), Iran Kufa (al-Kūfa), Iraq Hillah (al-Ḥilla), Iraq Baghdad (Baghdād), Iraq Tabriz (Tabrīz), Iran Mosul (al-Mawṣil), Iraq Cizre (Jazīrat Ibn 'Omar), Turkey Sinjar (Sinjār), Iraq Mardin (Mārdīn), Turkey Hormuz (New Hurmuz), Iran Lar (Lār), Iran
East Africa
Suakin (Sawākin), Sudan Zeila (Zaila'), Somalia Mogadishu (Maqdashaw), Somalia Mombasa (Mambasā), Kenya Kilwa (Kulwā), Tanzania
Anatolia
Alanya (al-‘Alāyā), Turkey Antalya (Anṭāliya), Turkey Burdur (Burdūr), Turkey Isparta (Sabartā), Turkey Eğirdir (Akrīdūr), Turkey Gölhisar (Qul-Ḥiṣār), Turkey Laodicea on the Lycus near Denizli (Lādhiq), Turkey Tavas (Ṭawās), Turkey Muğla (Mughla), Turkey Milas (Mīlās), Turkey Konya (Qūniya), Turkey Karaman (al-Lāranda), Turkey Aksaray (Aqsarā), Turkey Niğde (Nakda), Turkey Kayseri (Qaisarīya), Turkey Sivas (Sīwās), Turkey Amasya (Amāṣiya), Turkey Uluköy (Sūnusā), Turkey Gümüşhane (Kumish), Turkey Erzincan (Arzananjān), Turkey Erzurum (Arz al-Rūm), Turkey Birgi (Birgī), Turkey Tire (Tīra), Turkey Selçuk (Ayā Sulūq), Turkey İzmir (Yazmir), Turkey Manisa (Maghnīsīya), Turkey Bergama (Barghama), Turkey Balıkesir (Balī Kasrī), Turkey Bursa (Burṣā), Turkey İznik (Yasnīk), Turkey Geyve (Kāwiya), Turkey Taraklı (Yanijā), Turkey Göynük (Kainūk), Turkey Mudurnu (Maṭurnī), Turkey Bolu (Būlī), Turkey Gerede (Garadai), Turkey Safranbolu (Burlū), Turkey Kastamonu (Qaṣṭamūniya), Turkey Sinop (Ṣanūb), Turkey Constantinople, Turkey
Central Asia
Feodosia (al-Kafā), Ukraine/Russia Stary Krym (al-Qiram), Ukraine/Russia Azov (Azāk), Russia Majar (al-Māchar), Russia Pyatigorsk (Bish Dagh), Russia Bolghar (Bulghār), Russia Disputed. Astrakhan (al-Ḥājj Tarhān), Russia New Sarai (al-Sarā), Russia Sarayshyk (Sarāchūq), Kazakhstan Konye-Urgench (Khwārizm), Turkmenistan Bukhara (Bukhārā), Uzbekistan Qarshi (Nakhshab), Uzbekistan Samarkand (Samarqand), Uzbekistan Termez (Tirmidh), Uzbekistan Balkh (Balkh), Afghanistan Herat (Harāt), Afghanistan Disputed. Torbat-e Jam (al-Jām), Iran Disputed. Tus (Ṭūs), Iran Disputed. Nishapur (Naisābūr), Iran Disputed. Bastam (Bisṭām), Iran Disputed. Kunduz (Qundūz), Afghanistan Ghazni (Ghazna), Afghanistan Kabul (Kābul), Afghanistan
South Asia
Uch (Ūja), Pakistan Multan (Multān), Pakistan Abohar (Abūhar), India Pakpattan (Ajudahan), Pakistan Sirsa (Sarasatī), India Hansi (Ḥānsī), India Delhi (Dihlī), India Aligarh (Kuwil), India Kannauj (Qinauj), India Gwalior (Guyālyur), India Ujjain (Ujain), India Daulatabad (Dawlat Ābād), India Khambhat or Cambay (Kinbāya), India Gandhar (Qandahār), India Honnavar (Hinawr), India Mangalore (Manjarūr), India Kannur or Cannanore, India Kozhikode or Calicut (Qāliqūt), India Kollam or Quilon (Kawlam), India Malé (Mahal), Maldives Puttalam (Baṭṭāla), Sri Lanka Adam's Peak (Sarandīb), Sri Lanka Dondra Head (Dīnawar), Sri Lanka Chittagong, Bangladesh or possibly Satgaon, India (Sudkāwān) Identification of Sudkāwān uncertain. Sonargaon (Sunarkāwān), Bangladesh
Southeast Asia
Samudera Pasai Sultanate (Sumuṭra), Northern Sumatra, Indonesia Exact location uncertain.
China
Quanzhou (Zaitūn), China Guangzhou or Canton (Ṣīn al-Ṣīn), China Fuzhou (Qanjanfū), China Uncertain. Hangzhou (al-Khansā), China Disputed. Beijing (Khān Bāliq), China Disputed.
Al-Andalus
Gibraltar (Mountain of Victory), United Kingdom Ronda (Runda), Spain Marbella (Marbala), Spain Málaga (Málaga), Spain Granada (Gharnāṭa), Spain
Mali Empire and West Africa
Taghaza (Taghāzā), Mali Oualata (Īwālātan), Mauritania Timbuktu (Tunbuktū), Mali Gao (Kaukau), Mali Takedda (Takaddā), Niger Tuat (Tawāt), Algeria
Itinerary 1325–1332
Itinerary 1332–1346
Itinerary 1349–1353
References
Sources . First published in 1986, .
This volume was translated by Beckingham after Gibb's death in 1971. A separate index was published in 2000.