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Ibn Batuta calls Kol " a fine town surrounded by mango groves ".
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Ibn and Batuta
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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.
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, 1304-1377 ( 1929 ), (), English translation by Gibb.
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.
Ibn and calls
Ibn al-Qalanisi ( who calls him al-Kund Anjur, an Arabic rendering of " Count of Anjou ") says that " he was not sound in his judgment nor was he successful in his administration.
Ibn Khallikan, author of a fourteenth-century biographical dictionary, calls him " one of the most powerful, learned, and intrepid members of the family " and speaks at great length about his poetry.
In the 14th century, Ibn Battuta, in his travelogue, calls the rhinoceros he saw in India a karkadann, and describes it as a ferocious beast, driving away from its territory animals as big as the elephant ; this is the legend that is told in One Thousand and One Nights, in the " Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor ".
The biographical dictionary of Ibn Khallikan ( thirteenth century ) calls it:
Ibn al -' Arabi, by contrast, calls the Malamatiyya " the most perfect of the gnostics ", those who " know and are not known ".
Prominent imams, including Ibn ' Asakir, preached jihad (" holy struggle ") and when the Crusaders advanced towards Damascus in 1148, the city's residents heeded their calls ; the Crusader army withdrew as a result of their resistance.
Not without a good reason, the Arab chronicler Ibn al-Athir calls him " king of the Abasgians Georgians.
Ibn and Kol
Koil is also mentioned in Ibn Battuta's Rihla, when Ibn Battuta along with 15 ambassadors representing Ukhaantu Khan, the Mongol Emperor of the Yuan dynasty in China, travelled to Kol city en route to the coast at Cambay ( in Gujarat ) in 1341.
Ibn and fine
Dr. Zahid Ali assumes that because Ibn Killis had treated badly one of the court prisoners of al-Aziz to whom Imam had promised all honours, therefore Ibn Killis had to pay a fine.
Ibn and town
The siltation of the river delta forced the town further away from water ; In the 14th century, however, Ibn Battutah described Abadan just as a small port in a flat salty plain.
Of the three usual routes to Mecca, Ibn Battuta chose the least-travelled, which involved a journey up the Nile valley, then east to the Red Sea port of Aydhab, Upon approaching the town however, a local rebellion forced him to turn back.
After a journey along the coast, Ibn Battuta next arrived in the island town of Kilwa in present day Tanzania, which had become an important transit centre of the gold trade.
Ibn Battuta mentions the well built homes, city planning and water preservation systems in the city of Oualata, a crucial town in the trans-Saharan trade.
In the autumn of 1351, Ibn Battuta left Fes and made his way to the town of Sijilmasa on the northern edge of the Sahara in present-day Morocco.
From Granada to Murcia, the town of his birth and stayed with an old friend Abū Ahmed Ibn Saydabūn, a famous disciple of Abu Madyan who at the time of their meeting was evidently going through a period of fatra or suspension.
He was greeted in Damascus as a spiritual master and a spacious house was provided to him by the Grand Qadi of the town Ibn Zakī.
As the chronicler Ibn al-Athir wrote of the man the Arabs came to respect and fear as " al-Markis ": " He was a devil incarnate in his ability to govern and defend a town, and a man of extraordinary courage ".
The initial power base was the town of Ad-Dar ' iyah, where he met Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab, who came to Ibn Saud for protection.
The traveller Ibn Battuta characterised it as " a pretty little town in a fertile district.
It is the home town to the famed Islamic philosopher, al-Farabi, per the biographer Ibn al-Nadim.
In 1744, Ibn Saud took in a fugitive religious scholar named Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who hailed from the town of Al-Uyaynah, lying on the same wadi some 30 miles upstream.
Ibn al-Muqaffa, though a resident of Basra, was originally from the town of Jur ( or Gur, Firuzabad, Fars ) in the Iranian province of Fars.
* Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham Mosque, the largest mosque in the Palestinian town of Beit Hanina
Between 1144 and 1150 the town was again seat of an independent state led by Ibn Qasi, a mystic and skilled military leader who unified Southern Portugal and fought the power of the Almoravides.
Apparently, down town is the Market ( Bazaar ) area and also the main mosque of the city, named " O-ne-ben-ne Ali " ( Awn Ibn Mohammad Ibn Ali Ibn.
Zeila's importance as a trading port is further confirmed by Al-Idrisi and Ibn Said, who describe it as a town of considerable size and a center of the local slave trade.
About 20 of the traditions it contains were later declared to be forged ; such as those dealing with the merits of individuals, tribes or towns, including Ibn Mājah's home town of Qazwin.
Ibn Jubayr studied in the town of Játiva where his father worked as a civil servant.
Ibn al-Farid's father moved from his native town, Hama in Syria, to Cairo where he Umar was born.
Ibn Jubayr passed by the town in 1185, and wrote that " Everywhere around the town are gardens ...
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