Iblis
in Arabian mythology, Satan, and the father of the Sheytans, or devils.
IBN BATUTA (ibn bä-tö'tä), an Arab traveler and geographer, whose proper name was Abu Abdullah Mohammed; born in Tangiers in 1304. He spent 30 years (1325-1354) of his life in travel.
Settling at Fez, in Morocco, in 1354, he wrote the history of his journeys.
The course of his travels led him first to Mecca, then to Persia, Mesopotamia, Arabia, the E. coast of Africa, Asia Minor, the Caspian regions, Khwarizm, Bokhara, Afghanistan, and India; thence he proceeded to China by way of Sumatra, and finally came home to Fez in 1349. He died in Fez in 1378.