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Friday, January 14, 2011

The Greatest Dessert Explorer

Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta is the biggest explorer in the middle ages. He is a muslim explorer. 
Around the autumn, he starts his journey explore the largest desert, Sahara Desert.

At that time, no one knows what mystery that lies there. Then he tried to along the ancient route that usually passed by the salt and gold trader. Then he knows that Sahara is not just a wide sandy plain.


Ibn Battuta found Ahaggar mountain with some peaks as high as 3000 meter, large rivers, swampy area, and fertile oasis. Of course he also stopover in some trading town, met the hunters, and saw  African animals that almost he never known.
He has been explore from Spain in the west until China in east, from Timbuktu in west Africa until steppe desert in Rusia. Some historian think that Ibn Battuta exceed Marco Polo. 
Ibn Battuta was not just exploring and visiting many countries. He was also practice his knowledge that he has.


Around 1330-1333, Ibn Battuta arrived in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. He found precious goods there. Ho got scrolls cantaining Hadith Prophet that written by Bukhari-Muslim.
All of his journey was wrote by hisself  in a book that known with name Rihla that means journey. He wrote it with help from a scholar named Ibn Juazzy.
The real name of Rihla is Tuhfatal-Nuzzarfi Ghara'ibal Amsharwa'ajaib Al-Ashfar, the meaning approximately is boon for those who appreciate the wonders of the cities and journey.




source : my first cartoonal encyclopeBee

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