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Ibn Battuta, a 14th-century judge and ambassador, travelled further than Marco Polo. The Rihla records his adventures

By Ismail Albayrak, Professor of Islam and Catholic Muslim Relations, Australian Catholic University

Food, religious rituals, gender relations … Ibn Battuta described them all in his travelogue, which covered the medieval Islamic world, India, China and beyond.

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