
How Ibn Battuta's Makkah pilgrimage turned into 29-year journey marked by shipwrecks, bandits and Black Death
In 1325, Ibn Battuta, a young Muslim scholar began a brief pilgrimage that turned into a dramatic 29-year sojourn coloured by shipwrecks, kidnappings, political coups, royal meetings and the Black Death. When the Moroccan finally returned home, in 1354, he …