Ibn Battutah Quotes

“Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller”
― Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah

“The teacher spoke: 'There could of course be some rational explanation. But why shouldn't a karamah operate by rational means? After all, miracles aren't the same as magic.'

I asked if he thought al-Shadhili would perform a karamah for a non-Muslim.

'If your intention in visiting him is good, why not?' said the teacher.”
― Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

“In the fourteenth century, Arabs like IB had headed for the Sultanate of Delhi, drawn by its immense wealth. In the twentieth, however, the demographic tide had turned: the Gulf is now as much Indian as Arab.”
― Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah