Ibn Battuta — Encyclopaedia Britannica

Britannica biography of Ibn Battuta; it gives his departure for the pilgrimage in 1325, the completed pilgrimage in 1326, his appointment as the Delhi sultan's envoy to China in 1342, his return to Fez in November 1349, his journey to the western Sudan from 1352, and his return to Morocco at the end of 1353, when he dictated his travels to Ibn Juzayy.