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Near the end of his life, Ibn Battuta dictated an account of his journeys, titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling, commonly known as The Rihla.","summary_more":["Ibn Battuta travelled more than any other explorer in pre-modern history, totalling around 117,000 km (73,000 mi), surpassing Zheng He with about 50,000 km (31,000 mi) and Marco Polo with 24,000 km (15,000 mi)."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"24 February 1304","date":"1304-02-24"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Tangier","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126148"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"1368","date":"1368"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Fez","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80985"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331#P20"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"explorer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11900058"},{"text":"geographer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q901402"},{"text":"writer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36180"},{"text":"cartographer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1734662"},{"text":"qadi","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217029"},{"text":"merchant","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215536"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331#P106"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"first wife of Ibn Battuta","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109327533","start":"1325"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331#P26"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Ibn Battuta born?","a":"Ibn Battuta was born on 24 February 1304 in Tangier."}],"related":[{"name":"Edmund Hillary","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/edmund-hillary"},{"name":"Reinhold Messner","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/reinhold-messner"},{"name":"Junko Tabei","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/junko-tabei"},{"name":"Roald Amundsen","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/roald-amundsen"},{"name":"Neil Armstrong","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/neil-armstrong"},{"name":"Yuri Gagarin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yuri-gagarin"},{"name":"Valentina Tereshkova","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/valentina-tereshkova"},{"name":"Ernest Shackleton","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ernest-shackleton"},{"name":"Jacques Cousteau","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jacques-cousteau"},{"name":"Kalpana Chawla","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kalpana-chawla"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/ibn-battuta-6aa917300a.jpg","width":498,"height":718,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Léon Benett","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handmade_oil_painting_reproduction_of_Ibn_Battuta_in_Egypt,_a_painting_by_Hippolyte_Leon_Benett..jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Ibn Battuta","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q7331","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Handmade oil painting reproduction of Ibn Battuta in Egypt, a painting by Hippolyte Leon Benett..jpg by Léon Benett (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handmade_oil_painting_reproduction_of_Ibn_Battuta_in_Egypt,_a_painting_by_Hippolyte_Leon_Benett..jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Ibn Battuta, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Handmade oil painting reproduction of Ibn Battuta in Egypt, a painting by Hippolyte Leon Benett..jpg — Léon Benett, Public domain.","cite":"\"Ibn Battuta\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/ibn-battuta. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T13:59:50Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/ibn-battuta","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/ibn-battuta","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/ibn-battuta?lang=ne"}}