"Traveling leaves you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller" (Ibn Battuta)

That is really good line 👏👏

@musaab . wdym?

"Travel makes you speechless...then turns you into a narrator." Ibn battouta

"Who lives sees, but who travels sees more". -Ibn Battuta

It's really sad, he didn't have the chance to tell his mom about his journey and the wonders of the world :"(

@Rizky Satya that's actually sad to think about, though it's probably not the case. There was a postal system in the Muslim world back then and other travelers. He probably sent his parents letters and gifts.

ikr. his parents probably thought that he died during his pilgrimage.

From my school book, the name "Sumatera" in Indonesia can be counted as the legacy from Ibn Battuta. When he visited Samudera Pasai Sultanate during his journey to China, he wrote the word "Sumatrah" for that place in his journal (maybe from the misspelling from the "Samudera" word). The word "Sumatrah" become the international name for the region and then for the island as well until today.

Wow Really. Interesting 🤩

@Aga Ilham ok ok.. understood

@Nitya The Doremon🤌🏻 As my answer before, the legacy of Ibn Battuta for the name "Sumatra" is cited from my school book and Wikipedia Indonesia also mention this (but not in Wikipedia English). This information is cited from our local historian, Hamka, in his book (published in 1950), "Sedjarah Islam di Sumatera". Sorry, the word Sumatera is the non-formal name for Sumatra. Many people in Indonesia (including me) still accidentally using "Sumatera" instead of "Sumatra".

Why didn't I find anything which i googled this?? Can you please enhance??? Were you talking about Sumatra Indonesia 🙏🏼(which supposedly name came after swarndweep)?? Or the Sumatera place is different???

@Zakir Naik Ahmad Deedat My schoolbook when I was in middle school. Wikipedia Indonesia also mention this. I think they using same citation from Hamka's book "Sedjarah Islam di Sumatera" (1950). https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra But Wikipedia English did not mention this. They explain that earliest mention about "Sumatra" can be dated to 1017, far before Ibn Battuta came to this island. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra

He even arrived in Maldives, even now it’s hard for us to get out because we are disconnected from main continental lands, our only options are to fly, hardly locals use passenger ships, I can imagine how his journey would be back then. It’s stated that he was here around 9 months and served as a judge. Even though the journey was hard, he never had to apply for a Visa back then. In today’s age, he would have to apply to many Visas.

He wasn`t in Maldives, thats a myth

Leesha, glad to see a Maldivian interested in history instead of the gossip and baseless celebrity which flood the internet, may you be blessed with knowledge.

Hé had three wives in the maldives

Designer Dot a Somali from Mogadishu converted Maldives from Buddhist to Islam. He was also a governor.

In Maldvies : he got to rule and converted all budist to Muslims.

Ibn Battutah really was the main character of life he did all the side quests and the main story 😂❤️

@yacine Benoit 4gaming Uncharted 😃

i love this comment

@yacine Benoit 4gaming better than*

@Gon definitely 😂

@Gon 100%

Can you imagine how Ibnu Batutah travel around the world at that time? With camels or horses...not using modern transportation like car or plane. I think no one can beat his journey until now👍👍

@Mario Prawirosudiro many rulers gracefully received travelers and merchants with all sorts of gifts. They would later sell those gifts for a quick buck and continue traveling.

@Son Of Rabat I haven't read Ibnu Battuta's notes, but I've read the travel accounts of Tome Pires and Ludovico di Varthema. Didn't sound like they hunt much, if any. Of course, those two had sponsors, so they can just procure provisions from any merchants they meet. I mean, sure, more people back then could hunt, but then we must ask, whether or not it was feasible. Especially during those solo journeys, what if the hunt fails? The part where you said they were hosted by someone soundds plausible though. Semitic cultures like the Arabs do encourage people to host strangers.

@Mario Prawirosudiro You're looking at history from the modern lens. Not a proper way to interpret history. Back in those days, people when traveling either hunt their food, get hosted by just saying they're messengers or passer by. Back in the days, people had more time to learn methods of survival. For example, it was common in arabia and north africa ti carry large sword, small sword, and arrow strapped carried on the horse. All he has to do, is hunt with an arrow, build a fire .....

@Son Of Rabat All jokes aside, this got me wondering: How DID he finance his journey? It couldn't have been cheap. While it was mentioned that he basically hitch-hiked for some length of his journey, there's still a large chunk remaining.

@bash script no, through the matrix

Wish he posted these amazing travels on YouTube.

@Markivory slm vids

​@printmedia14 Excuse me, can you please till me the name of the channel for the guy who is reading it?

@Youssef Tourki Tom Macintosh

He did but chris crocker, told us to leave him alone!

@Youssef Tourki did you get the vedio

Such an underrated man. I remember reading his book every day on a balcony in Catalunya (Spain) having a view on the lower pyrenees while the sun was shining brightly and the natural smell of the cows and grass were roaming around the countryside . Oh man... the feels!

I want a movie about him. A long movie. This guy literally lived an adventure

@Shahruq Sarfaraz Ik van heel Europa een Moslimland maken

You sure Geert? Heb je een hekel aan moslims? 🤪

ewa geertje

@Rete Guy true, good point

A series would be much better than a movie, no? There are many stuff that can be added in a series such as character developement and detailed cultures compared to just a single movie.

Anywhere Ibn Battuta arrives: Be our judge! Legendary person.

@Bangalis are your DAD who mention being better because of arabic , i said he was selected as judge because of his knowledge in arabic

@Zakaria Alami speaking Arabic does not make you a better Muslim

because he was a judge at The Delhi Sultanat . Due to the tag he was welcomed.

be our judge 😊🔥, i remember my cousin was also offered like that! he was one of the fellow of Ibn Buttuta. 😎

@Zakaria Alami brother this is 130x

He reached the port of Chittagong in modern-day Bangladesh intending to travel to Sylhet to meet Shah Jalal, who became so renowned that Ibn Battuta, then in Chittagong, made a one-month journey through the mountains of Kamaru near Sylhet to meet him.

From Chittagong

@Nahin There is, people from Silchar which is India speaks pure Sylheti.

@Stark Gamer I didnt know there is anything called Indian sylheti

As an Indian sylheti,I was always told about Ibn battuta and Shah Jalal stories in my childhood.

From chittagong 🤝♥️

Great traveller, visited his tomb in Tangier back in 2017. I read his notes before my travels. Huge respect!

I feel like because we grew up in the west, a lot of these historical figures and stories are pushed to the side, so glad this internet era is helping us discover the other side of the world's history!

I feel so proud after watching this video, I honestly never recognised how much greatness he has achieved before as a Moroccan I could not be more thankful for introducing our icon to the world viewers, we are so thankful for the efforts made to make this amazing video ❤️

I made it a mission upon myself,to visit Ibn Batuta’s Tomb in the Old town of Tangier , Morocco. It took me serious traveling to get there . But I’m glad I did . I did it to pay respect and Admiration to one of the Greatest travelers who ever lived .

@😔 Are you a man?

@J P i dont think it matters nearly as much as the experience itself to be honest

Can you trust it is his REAL tomb? Just asking. We live in a world of fakes.

You welcome in my country

@sugacane Totally understand, and know what u mean . Sometimes u live in a special place , but u take it for granted ….but hey the Place is in a maze of small alleys and roads . I’m sure you’ll find your way …its very humbling , specially when u look around the place , and realize how much traveling the man did . And now he’s in a somehow forgotten random Tomb , barely visited. Tangier is a great town man , i loved it .

This is so mind blowing taking into consideration the amount of logistics, energy, courage and perseverance needed for such an incredible journey, this guy deserves all our respect. Btw how did he communicate with the people he met ?

He travelled in the Muslim world. Even though he was a Berber, Arabic was the de facto educational language in the diverse Muslim world from Morocco to Indonesia. Non Muslim nations such as India and Russia were under Muslim rule at that period of time and Ibn Battuta ususally stayed with Muslim community such as from his travel in China, Southern India and Sri Lanka.

Through translators I think. Islam was already spreading at the time, and so there would usually be some muslim merchants who can speak both Arabic and the local language. For me, the financing part is more mind-boggling.

in the most of middle eastern countries his legacy is still greatly revered! I studied in Azerbaijan and i still remember our history books have hundreds of references to his travel notes as they provide an invaluable window to the middle ages of Azerbaijani history, shahs, cities, poets and life. He described Tabriz - Southern Azerbaijan in great details and talked about the ancient empires who ruled Azerbaijan. His travels and life was an inspiration for a lot of us when we were kids, we all dreamt about travelling far and beyond like him. Maybe thats why i ended up here in Australia now 10 years later, 10k km away from Azerbaijan. This Video is amazing btw, thank you so much!

Ibn Battuta was unapologetically himself, i really admire that about him. Even though his amazing travels are what makes him famous and well loved- there are aspects of him that will trigger you- that's not to say he was a bad man by any stretch of the imagination, but his encounters and opinions were brutally honest. He DID expect gifts from the Elite and got upset when he didn't get any, he DID expect good food and a lavish care upon him upon his arrival, he DID take advantage of his status and had wives and kids that he knew he would abandon, he DID get offended at the sight of naked tribes and church bells ringing- but that's what i love about him- his honesty in his adventures, he really let the World know who he truly was- a remarkable traveller that had a taste of the good life and really couldn't get enough of it :)

That is an honest man with pride and dignity.

120000 kms and books of memories.

As a Moroccan traveler myself, Ibn battuta is definitely an inspiration

Ibn Battuta lived in such an interesting period when most of Asia was recovering from the Mongol conquests going through cultural transmissions and architectural development

@Sangu Liwet the mongols are not know to burn everything. Those cities who only refuse to surrender. You know who are known to erase cultural monuments and building, and burned books?? Islam.. even the Sultan of Mamluk Egypt wants to Destroyed the Great Pyramids. Too bad it's so hard to do. Sadly most of Great Statues and Sculpture in the Middle east and Aghanistan are Destroyed.

@Moorish Knight how is it fake?

@Gh Gh 2 Italian Brothers know for their fiction stories, created Marco Polo, based on the stories of Ibn Battutah

In Sri Lanka, we study in our history book about his journey to Sri Lanka and we get inspired by it. May Allah bless his soul

We Bangladeshis 🇧🇩 know Ibn Battuta well as he is studied in our education curriculum. So, as a Bangladeshi and particularly Chittagongian, I got goosebumps when on 12:20, the narrator takes the name of Chittagong, then Sylhet. I love Hazrat Shah Jalal Rahmat Ullah Alai. Surely that was the time when Muslims were having their golden time with political, intellectual and spiritual dominance.

My Origin is from Sylhet, Bangladesh, though I live in England, Shah Jalal is a widely known religious figure in my country, and to know that he received Ibn Battuta makes me very happy.

What a adventurous & interesting life he lived 🙌🏼❤️ MashaAllah

Indeed, this is true. His joruney across the known world is greatly underrated! More likes for Ibn Battuta!

@Dean Bergen he has came at Bangladesh as his part of journey, we have this history he also meet with Bengal ruler then. However if he was ibn Devid then u must gonna believe his word.

Ibn Bttuta is underrated only in the west.

This is still the longest travel any man ever made at least to me. This man deserves his name to be found in every city of those he had been in during that long journey. If you guys read the book someday you will know how gigantic his journey was !

He was such a fiery, crazy dude for doing what he did yet respectable due to his knowledge. I would love to host and chat with him if he is alive today. To travel and be accepted in many nations shows that he is humble yet accommodating every new culture he encountered. Sure, he got paid for jobs he took around the nation and received gifts due to being guest of important people but how he maintained all that through different culture, that is magnificent. Man got skills!

I’m so glad to see this video on him. My mom would always tell me stories about him when I was a child. She told me when she was in school in Lebanon they learned about him. On a side note, I love how everywhere he went he was welcomed by a king, a high ranking government official, or a wealthy and influential person. I feel like if I made that trek and I showed up I’d probably look homeless at which point they’d kick me out loll

Thank you for making such a detailed video of his journeys and accomplishments and giving him the spotlight he deserves.

In India, we often have stories of Ibn Battuta in our Hindi literature school textbooks in the lower grades.

@Indian Weeb Desu 🏳️‍🌈 bro ur username has so many wrongs

@☕ is Fantastic too much frustrated LoL

So???

My dad (who is a shiek himself) has a copy of his book (الرحلة) in his library And as one who read the book in its entirety I have to say you did a great job Bless

"Travel makes you speechless...then turns you into a narrator." Ibn battouta

He made such an incredible impact on the maldives with his time here too , truly an incredible person

Can you elaborate please ?

I am proud that I am Moroccan, the country of history and the country of Ibn Battuta 😍🇲🇦💪

If he had a camera he could've become the world's first travel vlogger 😂

Hello guys... i just got robbed hehe again.

@KINGSHAH_TV what?

@Reinhard yes it is and this is the true

@Gh Gh nah, its all lies.

Incredible story. Thank you for sharing it, it's a shame that many people have never heard his name

I have read Ibn Battuta book about his travelling experience, the book contains nearly 600 pages. If anybody read this book be will be amaze how he faces so many problem and overcome it.

As a Moroccan it’s something inside us we just love travelling, I am grown up in a very poor area but yet I always had the dream to travel around the world, I studied hard and got a good job and now I visited, Malta, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Tunisia, UK, Netherlands, and Now living in Hungary, planning to continue the journey after that to the Middle East, u see it’s just something in us

As a Moroccan, I am extremely proud of this greatest traveler of all time, Cheers to you my grandfather

Yes we are, he's a hero in which we take great pride as Moroccans!

This man has written the book titled "Kitabul Rohela". He is not underrated in Bangladesh as in Bangladeshi educational institutions he must be studied in every history class.

@k k I get what you're trying to say but it's more appropriate to call it Bangladesh than India now. The Bengal Sultanate ("Saltanat-i Bangala" as it was actually called) was the wealthiest state in the world at the time with its own unique identity. As we know there was no state called Hindustan or India at the time (even in the colonial period, Bengalis often used "desh" to mean Bengal instead of India). The Portuguese knew it as "Bengala." Bangladesh is its successor.

@DC_Ashraf let me clear something for you IBN batuta when visited Jaurilisim (whatever its spelling is) he didnt visit Israel in 1320 it was persia or iran whatever empire was that time , in that same contest When he visit Modern day Bangladesh he visited Hindustan not Bangladesh. Accept that that time it was mention as Hindustan.

@DC_Ashraf i mean Curzon Divide Bengal in 1905 , on basis of Hindu muslim. Actually Bangladesh never existed it was east Pakistan no it was just Pakistan 😂 i mean wtf . You will be like Ottoman Empire was real Israel was in Turkeyi before Haiti war , but Bangladesh was not😅 USSR (Russia is fake ) Ukrain was never part of Russia in part😂

@k k "Indian National Language was Hindustani" That was British India, not the Republic of India. And the Republic of India, I repeat, is officially a FEDERAL parliamentary republic.

@DC_Ashraf Indian National Lang was Hindustani for briefe movement before partition , not gonna explain everything now clear your concepts. Or in simple lang. India won Gold medal (Hockey) in Olympics at Germany in 1930 , Major Dhyanchand etc. Plus Jinnah and Muslim league wanted separate electrorate for NWFP and muslim majority etc, honestly dont wanna explain here. How , why etc use your brain before arguing

I wish I had sought out more about Ibn Firnas while I was in Baghdad 1980-85. I apologise if I missed a part of this piece that referred to Baghdad, I only know that there was a statue of the brave genius there. I did love hearing your immaculate pronunciation of the Arabic words! It took me back!

Once again thanks for continuing making this kind of wonderful long lasted and helpful content when the time short videos are being popular(in terms of views)♥️

I have read his 1300-pages book. His journey is amazing

Great presentation. What's truly amazing is that most of these travels were taken at the speed of a walk.

ibn Battuta is not underrated in Muslim world.I read books of him in my child hood edit: omg to many likes thank you all.

Right I remember learning about him in school I lived in Damascus 2004-2012

Buddh

1000th like 👍

@Maximus Augustus go to Canada or the US for school and you'll be obligated to learn about Non-Western figures.

Oh man what a life he lived centuries ago, Really amazing to imagine 💯

I can confidently say that one of the biggest milestone which i ever had was to decide to learn English language I never heard of that person but thanks to this channel I now have idea about this prominent explorer I don't think that i can find better YouTube channel that makes a historical video content better than you do "Knowledgia" team Good luck

A true traveller, yes we learnt about him in our history classes

Ibn Batuta's journies would make such a great TV show! Think Marco Polo meets Ertugrul. I don't think there's ever been a show that highlights the staggering travels, variety, and diversity of the old world as experienced by Ibn Batuta. His travels were ruly epic!

I really wish that we can do those travels in today's world like Ibn Battuta did back then. Traveling freely without restrictions, and without a fortune to travel, I really wish I could do the same. Mad respect for Ibn Battuta we all know and love him in the Arab world.

I learned about him in grades 1 to 6 in my Arabic classes Thank you for the childhood memories I really remembered a lot of grade 2 rn 💔

I want to give a special thanks for this amazing and overwhelming details of the life and travels of ابن" بطوطة" that you have made in this video.

You can write it like that Ibn battouta so non Arabic speakers can understand you, you mixed English with Arabic bro hahaha 😅😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍

just like Ibn Battuta , I went on my travels at an early age of 17 , however I only went round western Europe by train. Ibn Battuta your a inspiration.

A movie should be made about this man's life n journey's to distant lands. He would likely become very popular. Great video.

He is very popular just not outside of Arabia

A series of movies even cartoons. Marco Polo was nothing compared to him. Although many say Marco Polo was an imaginary story.

Well who ll make a series on his life? Muslims dont ve time it seems.Hollywood can...but they wont i think.

@Ayoub Hidayat Allah An epic webseries on him would be justice to his life.

@Imran Wickett---Possible. Thanks for replying.

It was impossible to not mention his name in history book. Even in Indonesia, when it seems like he just had a short transit, he is able to somehow manage to meet important people and store everything (well, most of it) perfectly in his mind, and write it down in a book.

Such a will and vision from a 21 years old to set afoot throughout the globe alone. What a huge character this man was

I am from sonargaon, Bangladesh. Ibn battuta also visited my town. When he visited Bangladesh that time Bangladesh was known as Bengal sultanate, the capital of Bengal sultanate was the sonargaon. Then he met with the ruler of Bengal sultanate fakhiruddin Mubarak Shah.

Legend,can't imagine the feelings of keep traveling in that period of era

In India his legacy still lives on, his adventures and experiences were introduced to us as kids through our school textbooks and we even have poems and songs about him here. Its quite fascinating really, the impact a solitary man can have

@praveen I doubt it sis.

True

@Nawfal Ourimech ibn batuta ha ha ibn batuta ud jawe chidiya furrr udi udi jawe this is lyrics from a song

WoW this guy is incredible. Thanks for making this vid, I am saddened by the dislike some have on explorers. Some were less than stellar BUT one cannot deny their adventurous spirit.

you know Ibn Battuta is a true legend when he turned out to be as good of a writer as he was a traveler

What a amazing man he was..in his times

This was probably one of the best videos I’ve ever watched on YouTube. What an amazing man, SubhanAllah.

Ibn battuta is so underrated, he deserves more recognition. Anyway, he is still the pride of Morocco ❤🇲🇦

@3M LONEL تكلموا على رحلات ابن بطوطة والزعبي كان مغامر ع ربي حفظه مايقتلوه بعض الشعوب المتوحشة احيانا يلقي بنفسه التهلكة في مرة قريت انه مشى لشعوب متوحشة ماخلا ل الهند ولا باكستان هنا في هد الفيديو مشى لسمرقند حدا إيران وازريبيدجان واوزبيكيستان وقالوا انه اختطف وسرق من طرف هنود والله يرحمه غامر يحسن عوانو فكرني في مغامرات بنو هلال مساكن رحلة طويلة قاموا بها مليئة بالمشاكل والحروب وأيام وشهور في العداب والغربة

@تيكشبيلا توليولا شنو قالو ؟

@UCPgPgvYp28rJqqZwYEnOxPw والله و النعم منكم الف و نتشرف فأهل المغرب كله من الأدنى الى الأقصى 💙 للأسف نشروا الفتنة لدرجة تلاقي ابناء بلد الواحد صاروا كارهين بعض و يدوروا عاليفرقهم بدل الدين و التاريخ الطويل و المشرف الي يجمعهم،، ما بقول الا الله يلعن الإستعمار الي زرع بذور هالفرقة و القومية العمياء سواء وطنية او عرقية.. و على فكرة فالشام في كثير عائلات من أصول مغاربية و حتى فالقدس حي المغاربة تسمى نسبة للمغرابة الي سكنوه ايام صلاح الدين. و في بلدتنا في عائلة المغربي و اصولهم شمال افريقيا. و كثير من الناس الي كانت تسافر الحج ثم تقدس حجها بمعنى تمر على الاقصى في طريق عودتها من الحج، كانت تستقر فالمنطقة بطريقة او بأخرى. و هذا الكلام حتى فترة قريبة جدا، مثلا ياسين بقوش الي انشهر في مسلسل غوار كان اصله ليبي و ابوه مرض فرجعته من الحج و استقر في دمشق و ما عرف عن اصوله حتى تواصلت معه عمته بعد ما طلع عالتلفزيون فكل الوطن العربي. هذا غير العشائر و القبائل الي لها وجود فالشام و فالمغرب العربي طبعا

@Kal Mon وانا لي الشرف

I really like how well-illustrated and easy-to-understand this video is

In Anatolia Ibn Battuta actually met with the second Ottoman sultan Orhan Ghazi who was the second bey of the Ottoman Beylik at the time, he remarks that he was so generous and always on military campaigns mostly against the Byzantines.

There are many people who may have followed a similar itinerary. Ibn Batuta was lucky to write about it and at the same time write his name in history.

A very well researched text , wonderfully narrated and a very clear explanatory map showing Ibn Batuta's journeys . Hoping for more such knowledgeable videos in future Thank you.

9:57 Everything was so perfect, nothing happened untill he stepped on this land.. amazing!!!

I wish I was at at this period of time. Imagine you’re in Mecca doing pilgrimage and then getting to know so many people from all around the world, each with a story on their journey and what they encountered along the way. You’d make so many friends that you won’t even see again or probably even hear about again in your life. The pilgrimage to Mecca alone meant that your life wouldn’t be the same again.

Once I was in the Sahara, grazing my sheep I met him. He was a great man.

Ibn Battuta is one of my favourite historical personalities. I have collected some very interesting books on and about his historical voyages around the globe. He was a brave, daring, and determined person to have successfully explored the world and to put down in his diary all the people, culture, and experiences he had learned during his sojourn. No one before or after Ibn Battuta had explored the world single-handedly and returned home safe. My prayers for his soul and for the parents he had lost.

Damn i watched a 17 min documentary on a great traveler it was so interesting didn't even moved during the whole video well deserved like and respect to the Great traveler.

I am totally surprised when I read about this man . Legend 👏

7:02 after visiting Zeila in the Adal Kingdom and Mogadishu in the Ajuran Empire he went to the Maldives and encountered a somali ruler named Abd al-Azi al-Maqdishi who invited him and gave him what he needs to continue his journey

this great man deserves recognition, a series or even a movie would be nice!

As a Moroccan, I love seeing my country's history getting recognition

​@A. E. thats true, this small tribal, regional and country mindset is undermining the greatest religion and its pious pioneers who shine the world. please be gracious to be Islam.

@A. E. No, we have our own history, our own culture, our own heroes, kings, scholars, champions. Do not associate yourselves with us. We are Moroccans, that is all.

@O indeed agmano

@A. E. Love it when everytime a moroccan does something amazing you'd like to refer to them as muslim / arab ( when we are amazigh ) yet when something bad happens you don't want to associate . How convenient ! We're moroccans ( muslims/jews/atheists/ other ) . Go be proud of your own country and people !

I'm glad that one of our morrocan legends get recognition thank you for this video ❤️

Thank you very much for the effort you put on this video it's really optimistic and positive