Who Was Alive

Were Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Battuta alive at the same time?

Yes. Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Battuta were alive at the same time for 23 or 24 years, from 1304 to 1327–1328.

Ibn Taymiyya was 40 or 41 when Ibn Battuta was born.

Ibn Battuta was 23 or 24 when Ibn Taymiyya died, aged 64 or 65.

Ibn Taymiyya

Ibn Taymiyya

Islamic jurist and scholar

Born 1262–1263 · died 1327–1328, aged 64 or 65

Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta

Explorer

Born 24 February 1304 · died c. 1368

  1. Thomas Aquinas, 1225 – 1274
  2. Marco Polo, 1254 – 1324
  3. Ibn Taymiyya, c. 1263 – c. 1328
  4. Dante Alighieri, c. 1265 – 1321
  5. Ibn Battuta, 1304 – c. 1368
  6. Petrarch, 1304 – 1374
  7. Ibn Khaldun, c. 1332 – c. 1406
  8. Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1343 – c. 1400

Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Battuta in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries; dashed lines mark world events. Drag across, or use the arrow keys, to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

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Where Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Battuta were born

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