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He began his travels when he was 20 years old and the main reason was to go on Hajj. This took him 24 years and went to most of the Islamic world, North Africa, West Africa, Middle East, India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and China. His accounts were published in his Travels. European explorers didn't read his book and scholars do not believe he actually visited all the places he described. It wasn't until the beginning of the 19th century that he was known about outside the Muslim world. A German traveler named Seetzen got a collection of manuscripts in the Middle East that included an abridged version of Ibn Battuta's writings. Three extracts were published in 1818 , so this is 400 years after the first European explorers sailed.

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