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Travel Route of Ibn Battuta Map

Weetjesman · 2 September 2018

A modern map tracing the routes Ibn Battuta travelled across Afro-Eurasia, used to visualise his extensive journeys.

This map traces Ibn Battuta's extensive journeys, helping viewers visualise the scope of his travels.

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Grey world map of Afro-Eurasia with red lines tracing travel routes across North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, India, Southeast Asia and China, showing the journeys of Ibn Battuta.
Weetjesman, Travel route of Ibn Battuta, 2018.

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What it is

This is a modern map created in 2018 showing the travel routes of Ibn Battuta. Red lines trace his journeys across North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, India, Southeast Asia and China, drawn over a grey map of Afro-Eurasia.

Why it matters

Maps like this help us understand the scale of Ibn Battuta's travels, which crossed many regions and cultures of the medieval Islamic world and beyond. It is a secondary source, made centuries after Ibn Battuta's life to help modern readers follow his path.

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  • How does seeing the whole route at once change your sense of how far Ibn Battuta travelled?
  • What might be missing from a map like this — such as the time each journey took?
  • Why might historians create visual aids like this instead of relying only on text?

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