Ibn-Battutah was a famous Muslim traveler of the fourteenth century who undertook a series of travels across all the lands that were listed in the dominions of  Islam, starting from his native land, present-day Morocco, to which he returned toward the end of his life. In his Travels, he describes the lands he visited and their peoples, rulers, social customs, and characteristics; his descriptions, although not free from error and exaggeration, constitute one of the finest sources of information about the fourteenth-century  Muslim world.