* Ibn Batuta, iv.

Hobson-Jobson cites Ibn Batuta ( c. 1340 ) mentioning a dish of munj ( moong ) boiled with rice called Kishrī, and cites a recipe for Khichri from Ain-i-Akbari ( c. 1590 ).

Galle was known as Gimhathiththa ( although Ibn Batuta in the 14th century refers to it as Qali ) before the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century, when it was the main port on the island.

Ibn Batuta calls Kol " a fine town surrounded by mango groves ".

Similar references can be found in the notes of the Franciscan John of Montecorvino, first archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Beijing at the early of 14th century, and the writings of Ibn Batuta, an Arabian envoy to the Mongol Empire in the middle of 14th century.

Ibn Batuta ( AD 1344 ) observed that more than 40 ships loaded with cowry shells were exported each year.

He died in Fez in 1357 two years after the completion of the Rihla of Ibn Batuta.

Alagakkonara is mentioned by Ibn Batuta as ruling in Kurunegala, but other sources indicate that he was the Bandara ( Guardian ) of Raigama Korale ( county ) in the modern Kalutara District.

Other visitors included Faxian, the Buddhist pilgrim and Ibn Batuta, writer and historian of Tangiers.

On his way to Sylhet, Ibn Batuta was greeted by several of Shah Jalal's disciples who had come to assist him on his journey many days before he had arrived.

Once in the presence of Shah Jalal, Ibn Batuta noted that Shah Jalal was tall and lean, fair in complexion and lived by the masjed in a cave, where his only item of value was a goat from which he extracted milk, butter, and yogurt.

In the 14th century, Ibn Batuta profusely praised the quality of cotton textiles of Sonargaon.

From Fuzhou he struck across the mountains into Zhejiang and visited Hangzhou, then renowned, under the name of Cansay, Khanzai, or Quinsai ( i. e. Kin gsze or royal residence ), as the greatest city in the world, of whose splendours Odoric, like Marco Polo, Marignolli, or Ibn Batuta, gives notable details.

According to Ibn Batuta, the people of Honnavar were Muslims of the Shafai or Arab sect, peaceful and religious.

Ibn Batuta went to Calicut and then returned to Honavar where he found the chief preparing an expedition against the island of Sindabur or Chitakul ( present day Sadashivgad ) near Karwar.

Ibn Batuta, during his 24-year sojourn in the 14th century, is reported to have mentioned about the Quilon port as one of the five ports for Chinese trade.

Rannamaari has two main versions, the traditional version and the one told by Ibn Batuta.

According to the Moroccan traveler Ibn Batuta, who visited the Maldives during his journeys through Asia,

According to Ibn Batuta, the Khiljis encouraged conversion to Islam by making it customary to have the convert presented to the sultan ( who would place a robe on him and reward him with gold bracelets ).

Medieval traveler Ibn Batuta visited Sijilmasa ( near Tafilalt ) in the fourteenth century on his journey from Fez to " the country of the blacks ".

14th century Moroccan traveller, Ibn Batuta, after visiting the capital in 1346, described Fakhruddin as " a distinguished sovereign who loved strangers, particularly the fakirs and sufis ".

Trade activities were mentioned by travelers like Ibn Batuta, Ma Huan and Ralph Fitch.

Its population as per the last census was 5667 and at present time its above 8000, all of the inhabitants are of Muslim, religion which is said to have been brought by Arab traveller Ibn Batuta.

The Pakpattan owes its sanctity and modern name, ' the holy ferry ', to the shrine of the great Muslim Sufi Fariduddin Ganjshakar Shaikh-ul-Islam, Farid-ul-Hakkwa-ud-Din, Shakar Ganj ( 1173 – 1265 ) which was visited by old great traveller and historian Ibn Batuta in 1334.

Again, this type of construction for Chinese ship hulls was attested to by the Moroccan Muslim Berber traveler Ibn Batutta ( 1304-1377 AD ), who described it in great detail ( refer to Technology of the Song Dynasty ).

* Ibn Battuta ( February 24, 1304-1377, explorer

After two years of fighting, they were suppressed by Ibn Saud in the Battle of Sabilla in March 1929.

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.

* Sirat al-shaykh al-ra ' is ( The Life of Ibn Sina ), ed.

The 13th-century Moroccan biographer Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili and Qadi Ayyad before him in the 12th-century, note that Waggag's learning center was called Dar al-Murabitin ( The house of the Almoravids ), and that might have inspired Ibn Yasin's choice of name for the movement.

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

An interesting memoir of Abdallatif, written by himself, has been preserved with additions by Ibn Abu-Osaiba ( Ibn Abi Usaibia ), a contemporary.

His later life was spent in various parts of the Islamic world, in Aleppo with its governor Sayf ad-Dawlah ( to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs ), in Ray with the Buwayhid vizier Ibn ' Abbad, and elsewhere.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

For Avicenna ( Ibn Sina ), for example, the a tabula rasa is a pure potentiality that is actualized through education, and knowledge is attained through " empirical familiarity with objects in this world from which one abstracts universal concepts " developed through a " syllogistic method of reasoning in which observations lead to propositional statements which when compounded lead to further abstract concepts.

The historian Ibn Khaldun describes fiqh as " knowledge of the rules of God which concern the actions of persons who own themselves bound to obey the law respecting what is required ( wajib ), sinful ( haraam ), recommended ( mandūb ), disapproved ( makrūh ) or neutral ( mubah )".

A strong emphasis on experimentation and empiricism led to new results and new observations, which were contrasted and combined with those of Galen by writers such as Rhazes, Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi ( Haly Abbas ), Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi ( Abulasis ), Ibn Sina ( Avicenna ), Ibn Zuhr and Ibn al-Nafis.

(, ), or simply Ibn Battuta (), also known as Shams ad-Din ( February 25, 1304 – 1368 or 1369 ), was a Berber Muslim Moroccan explorer, known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla ( lit.

(), better known just as Ibn Rushd (), and in European literature as Averroes (; April 14, 1126 – December 10, 1198 ), was an Andalusian Muslim polymath ; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics.

A major Arabic TV series, The Roof of the World or Saqf al-Alam, (), was produced in 2007 charting Ibn Fadlan's journey from a contemporary perspective.

Shaihu Usman dan Fodio (), born Usuman ɓii Foduye, ( also referred to as Shaikh Usman Ibn Fodio, Shehu Uthman Dan Fuduye, or Shehu Usman dan Fodio, 1754 – 1817 ) was the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1809, a religious teacher, writer and Islamic promoter.

Taqi ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah ( January 22, 1263 – 1328 CE ), full name: Taqī ad-Dīn Abu ' l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʿAbd as-Salām Ibn Taymiya al-Ḥarrānī (), was an Islamic scholar ( alim ), theologian and logician born in Harran, located in what is now Turkey, close to the Syrian border.

Abū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh ( Arabic أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن الصائغ ), known as Ibn Bājjah (), was an Andalusian Berber polymath: an astronomer, logician, musician, philosopher, physician, physicist, psychologist, botanist, poet and scientist.

Abū-Muhammad Abd-Allāh Rūzbeh ibn Dādūya / Dādōē (), known as Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (), Ibn Muqaffa ( Ebn-e Moqaffa ), or in Persian Rūzbeh pūr-e Dādūya () ( d. c. 756 ), was a Persian thinker and a Zoroastrian convert to Islam.

Abu Muhammad ' Abd al-Malik bin Hisham (), or Ibn Hisham ( died 833 ) edited the biography of Muhammad written by Ibn Ishaq.

Ibn Hayyan reports that in 816, Abd al-Karim ibn Abd al-Wahid ibn Mugit launched a military campaign against the pro-Frankish " Enemy of God ", Velasco the Gascon (, Balašk al-Ŷalašqī ), Sahib of Pamplona (), who had united Christian and pagan factions.

Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 A. D .), also known as Abbas Abu Al-Qasim Ibn Firnas Ibn Wirdas al-Takurini (), was a Muslim Andalusian polymath: an inventor, engineer, aviator, physician, Arabic poet, and Andalusian musician.

Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (), also written Ibn Masawaih, Masawaiyh, and in Latin Mesue, Masuya, Mesue Major, Msuya, and Mesue the Elder was a Syriac physician from the Academy of Gundishapur.

Abu ' l Qāsim ʿAbd ar-Raḥman bin ʿAbdullah bin ʿAbd al-Ḥakam bin Aʿyan al-Qurashī al-Mașrī (), generally known simply as Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam ( born ca 803-died 871 at al-Fustat near Cairo ) was an Egyptian Muslim historian who wrote a work generally known as The Conquest of Egypt and North Africa and Spain (, Futuḥ mișr wa ' l maghrab wa ' l andalus ).

* Ammar's father, Yasir Ibn Amir Al-Ansi (), left his native place in Yemen seeking a brother of his.