(, ), 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.

Nawal El Moutawakel () ( born on April 15, 1962 in Casablanca ) is a Moroccan hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first female Muslim born on the continent of Africa to become an Olympic champion.

She was also the first Moroccan and the first woman from a Muslim majority country to win an Olympic gold medal.

But, as is told in the Rotensian Chronicle ( chronicle of Alfonso III of Asturias in which Pelayo is considered the successor of the kings of Toledo, with clear goals of political legitimacy ) as well as in that of Al-Maqqari ( a Moroccan historian of the 16th century who died in Cairo, Egypt, and who could have used the Rotensian Chronicle and rewrite it eight centuries later, making it useless as a historical document ), Pelayo escaped from that city during the governorship of Al Hurr ( 717-718 ) and his return to Asturias triggered a revolt against the Muslim authorities of Gijon.

Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de ' Marignolli, John of Montecorvino, Niccolò de ' Conti, or Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan Muslim traveller, who passed through the present-day Middle East and across the Silk Road from Tabriz, between 1325 – 1354.

Over the past couple of decades, a substantial Muslim community of mainly Moroccan and Turkish ancestry has established itself in Molenbeek, very visible ( people, shops, cafés ) in the oldest neighbourhoods of the commune, near the canal, while the new neighbourhoods are more akin to the population of neighbouring communes Jette or Berchem-Sainte-Agathe.

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 ).

In 2003, more than a dozen members and fans of Moroccan heavy metal bands were imprisoned for " undermining the Muslim faith ", awareness of the fact that heavy metal does not undermine the Muslim faith has led to the heavy metal fans in many Arab countries to form huge metal cultures, with movements such as Taqwacore.

There is a long established Jewish community, a number of Hindu Indians and a Moroccan Muslim population.

The Moroccan peak Jebel Musa is named for Musa bin Nusayr according to the 14th-century Berber Muslim geographer Ibn Battuta.

* Heath, Jeffrey, Jewish and Muslim dialects of Moroccan Arabic ( Routledge Curzon Arabic linguistics series ): London, New York, 2002.

The period of heightened tensions between Dutch and Muslim communities was also evidenced by several confrontations between what are known as the " Lonsdale Youth " ( Dutch youth groups characterised by their preference for Lonsdale clothing, which is often popular with Neo-Nazi groups ) and Turkish and Moroccan youths in provincial towns like Venray.

* Abdelaziz Ben Sediq ( 1920 – 1997 ), Moroccan Muslim scholar

Because the local Muslim troops had been among Franco's earliest supporters, the protectorate enjoyed more political freedom than Franco-era Spain proper after Franco's victory, with competing political parties and a Moroccan nationalist press, criticizing the Spanish government.

Accounts of Timothy Drew's ancestry variously described his being the son of two former slaves who was adopted by a tribe of Cherokees or the son of a Moroccan Muslim father and a Cherokee mother.

The Muslim Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta used this route in 1352 on his way to the city of Mali, the capital of the Mali Empire.

Attajdid is a Moroccan newspaper, of a generally Muslim conservative stance with close ties with Justice and Development Party.

The prohibition of entrusting the presidency to a Moroccan will quickly be circumvented by leaving this chair for six months, Ben Abadja Hejja, a Muslim of Algerian descent and who benefited from this fact of French nationality.

Bankes, writing in 1830, roundly asserted that he was a Jew, and many later writers have thought that he was a genuine Muslim of Moroccan origin, but of Spanish education.

The Moroccan Quarter or Mughrabi Quarter ( Arabic حار َ ة الم َ غار ِ بة Hārat al-Maghāriba ) was an 800-year old neighborhood in the southeast corner of the Old City of Jerusalem, bordering on the western wall of the Temple Mount on the east ( including the Western Wall ), the Old City walls on the south ( including the Dung Gate ), the Jewish Quarter to the west, and the Muslim Quarter to the north.

A contemporary of the second Jewish revolt against Rome ( 132-135 CE ), Bar Yochai is venerated by Moroccan Jews, whose veneration of saints is thought to be an adaptation of local Muslim customs.

* date unknown – Ibn Battuta, Moroccan explorer ( b. 1304 )

* Ibn Battuta ( 1304 – 1377 ) – Moroccan explorer.

Ibn Battuta the great Moroccan explorer wrote about his travels to Khonj in great detail.

It is named after Moroccan famous traveller and explorer Ibn Battuta.

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.

Following the era of the Khilji dynasty in 1333, the famous Moroccan travelling scholar Ibn Battuta was visiting Kabul:

* Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reports the existence of the ngoni and balafon instruments at the court of Mansa Musa.

* February 24 – Ibn Battuta, Moroccan jurist

Thirteenth-century Moroccan author Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi, mentioned the battle in his history of the Maghrib, " al-Bayan al-Mughrib fi Akhbar al-Maghrib.

The 14th century Moroccan traveler, Ibn Battuta, reported it at Mogadishu.

The name used for the region during the middle ages and up until the 20th century was Afghanistan, which has been mentioned by the 6th century Indian astronomer & mathematician Varahamihira, 7th century Chinese pilgrim Hiven Tsiang, 14th century Moroccan scholar Ibn Batutta, Mughal Emperor Babur, 16th century historian Firishta and many others.

; 1107: Moroccan Almoravid ruler Yoseph Ibn Tashfin expels Moroccan Jews who do not convert to Islam.

In 1352 CE, Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reported the existence of the ngoni and balafon at the court of Malian ruler Mansa Musa.

In 1332, the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta also visited Latakia in his journeys.

The famous Moroccan scholar and traveller Ibn Battuta did visit Mombasa in 1331 on his travels on the eastern coast of Africa and made some mention of the city, although he only stayed one night.

Senussi went to Mecca, where he joined Ahmad Ibn Idris al-Fasi, the head of the Khadirites, a religious fraternity of Moroccan origin.

The ngoni is known to have existed since 1352, when Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveller reported seeing one in the court of Mansa Musa.

* Muhammad Ibn ' Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, Moroccan resistance leader.

Rihla (, may be translated as " A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling "), simply referred to as the Rihla ( ar-Riḥlah, " The Journey "; or Riḥlat Ibn Baṭūṭah, " Journey of Ibn Battuta ") is a medieval book which recounts the journey of the 14th-century Berber Moroccan scholar and traveler Ibn Battuta.

The Moroccan traveller Ebn-e Batutta visited the port of Zaytun-( modern day Quanzhou ) and still known as Citong-in the mid-fourteenth century.

By 1330, the Moroccan historian and traveler Ibn Batutta would describe the city as dominated by Muslims from the Zaidi Shi ' ite denomination, an apparent indication of an early Persian influence in the region.