The most important trips of Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta's first trip began on June 14, 1325, from Tangier, where he wanted to go on pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, arrived in Alexandria, Egypt, then went to Iraq and western Persia, then went to Yemen and the Coastal Coast of East Africa. [1] The journey from Cairo to Damascus was Damascus as the second capital of the Mamluks, and Ibn Battuta joined a convoy of pilgrims that left Cairo for Damascus under the protection of the Mamluk Sultan, and the convoy passed through a number of holy places as it walked, such as Hebron, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, etc. , until Damascus arrived, ibn Battuta described the mosque in Hebron as an elegant and luxurious building, built of square stones, and contains inside it the holy cave that houses the graves of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as well as the tombs of their wives. [2] The trip to Beit al-Maqdis went to Beit al-Maqdis after visiting Hebron, where he described the Dome of the Rock Mosque as one of the finest and strangest buildings in the form and completed it from the architectural point of view, in addition to the gold-plated decorations, while in the center of the dome is the honorable rock from which the Prophet Muhammad limped