@article{2012,title={Hadith Culture in Travelogues: The Case of Ibn Battuta},abstractNode={Books of Travels are one of the most important sources of Islamic history and religious life; because they have important functions in terms of their transport of the historical, geographical and socio-cultural characteristics of a certain time to the present day. Travelling is also an important tradition in Islamic culture; because of travelling is a good way to expand the horizons of knowledge and experience. As it’s known, Ibn Battuta also known as Shams ad-Din (1304–1368 or 1369), was a Berber Muslim Moroccan explorer, known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla. Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands; his journeys including trips to North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo. For this reason Ibn Battuta is considered one of the greatest travelers of all time. As a devout person Ibn Battuta during his travels tried to learn all of the characteristics of religious and religious organizations wherever he went and established close contacts with religious people and organizations, also visited sacred-religious authorities and besides gave place to the hadith narrations about this places in his book. In his travelogues, which help as to understand the medieval Islamic geography his time period, as well as information on socio-cultural and economical life of Muslim communities, reflections of Muslim civilization and sunnah and hadiths of Prophet Muhammad to the religious and general public life and religious persons had narrated. For this reason, İbn Battuta’s works are one of the important sources in terms of hadith and sunnah in studies.},author={Yunus MACİT},year={2012},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}