İbn Battûta

Ibn Battuta was a medieval traveller who was one of the most prominent representatives of the travel literature of the Islamic period and is known as the most famous and best known of the geographers (Volume 2, p. 37). He is also a noted historian of Kurdish history, having left behind eyewitness accounts of the Kurdish cities and inhabitants he visited (Volume 2, p. 102; Volume 2, s. 107). Ibn Battuta conveyed the facts as he saw them, wanted to be a reliable eye and witness for the places he visited, and also provided many interesting and pleasant information (Volume 2, p. 37). ## Sincar: "The population is Kurdish" Ibn Battuta, in his travel letter, refers to his visit to Sincar; he said that the city's inhabitants were Kurds, and wrote that he spoke of their courage and hospitality and met with the Kurdish nobility (Volume 2, p. 107). Ibn Battuta of Cizre and Nusaybin praised the city as a great and ancient city and described its people as reliable, faithful, reformed and religious (Volume 2, p. 102). Bilad-i-Damascus, a Kurdish settlement, visited Hysnu al-Kasir, one of the settlements of the Kurds in Bilad in Damascus, and stated that it was a rather pleasant place (Volume 2, p. 75). Such records are among the testimonies applied to observe the demographic and political transformations of his period (Volume 2, p. 68). ## The observations of Yeri ibn Battûta in the sources have also been used by later authors; among the authorship of several pages from Ibn Jübeyr's travels are Makrîzi, Sherishi and 'Abderî along with Ibn Battûda (Volumes 1, p. 162). Thus, the traveller became one of the central names of Islamic geography writing in terms of both his observations and previous travel literature (Volume 2, p. 37; Volume 1, p. 162).