Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn 賽Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta (Arabic: 兀亘賵 毓亘丿 丕賱賱賴 賲丨賲丿 丕亘賳 毓亘丿 丕賱賱賴 丕賱賱賵丕鬲賷 丕賱胤賳噩賷 丕亘賳 亘胤賵胤丞鈥�) was a Muslim Marinid Berber scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school of Fiqh, or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a Qadi or judge. However, he is best known as a traveler and explorer, whose account documents his travels and excursions over a period of almost thirty years, covering some 73,000 miles (117,000 km). These journeys covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world and beyond, extending from North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance readily surpassing that of his predecessors and his near-contemporary Guru Nanak.