![]() ![]() On completion of his journey, beginning from 1325 down to 1353 AD he returned to his homeland Morocco, and settled there for the rest of his life (d. ![]() ![]() The story of the travel of Ibn Battuta was compiled in a book in the year 1355 AD. The period of Battuta's travel in Bengal, from his arrival at Sudkawan (Chittagong) to his departure from Sunurkawan (Sonargoan) for Java, seems to cover a period of less than two months, between July and August 1346. At Sonargoan he boarded a Chinese junk bound for Java. He sailed on this river for 15 days and at the end reached the town of Sunurkawan (Sonargoan, 14 August 1346). After a three-day halt in the hospice of the saint he went towards the town of Habank on the bank of the river An-Nahr ul-Azraq (the blue river). He then met the sufi saint Shaykh Jalaluddin at his abode. From there he proceeded direct to the mountains of Kamaru (Kamrupa) which was according to him a month's journey. The first town of Bengal which Ibn Battuta entered, as the treveller relates, was Sudkawan (Chittagong, 9 July 1346). About 1345, he set out for Ceylon, whence he repaired to southern India and stayed at Madura. Shipwrecked on the way he proceeded to the Malay Islands where he worked as a judge for one year. He was afterwards sent as an ambassador to China (1342). Sultan Muhammad Tughlaq appointed him Qazi (judge) of Delhi, which office he held about eight years. The African globe-trotter started on his travels in 1325 AD at the age of twenty one, and during the next eight years explored whole of northern Africa, Arabia, Persia, the Levant (the eastern part of the Mediterranean) and Constantinople, whence he came by the overland route to India. The purpose of his sojourn in Bengal, as related by the traveller himself, was to pay a visit to a Muslim saint of renown, Shaykh Jalaluddin (Hazrat Shahjalal Mujarrad-i-yemeni), who had taken up his abode in the mountainous region of Kamrupa. His full name is Shaykh Abu Abdullah Muhammad. Ibn Battuta (1304-1378) Moroccan traveller who visited Bengal in 1346 AD. ![]()
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