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These notes can be found or read out in his travel memoir. In 1325, when Ibn Battuta was 20 years old, he started travelling, as he wanted to go on a Pilgrimage to Mecca, which is called as Hajj ...

OLLIE: Was it far? IBN BATTUTA: It was nearly 3,000 miles as the crow flies, from my home in Tangiers in Morocco, but I had to travel by land. I made a point of never travelling on the same road ...

Mecca was, for Ibn Arabi, not just the geographical centre of Islam but also a symbol of the inward journey of the soul towards divine presence. From Mecca, he continued his travels through ...