• Ibn Batuta was a Moroccan traveller who visited India in 14th century CE. • Before he set off for India in 1332-33, he had made pilgrimage trips to Mecca, and had already travelled extensively in Syria, Iraq, Persia, Yemen, Oman and a few trading ports on the coast of East Africa. • Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, the sultan of Delhi was impressed by his scholarship and appointed him the qazi or judge of Delhi. • He also went to China as the envoy of Muhammad Bin Tughlaq. • Ibn Battuta wrote a book titled Rihla in Arabic.