In the 14th century, North African traveller Ibn Battuta wrote of his visit to Hajr, describing it as "the main city of Al-Yamamah, and its name is Hajr".
When Arab fortune hunter Faris Jawad and his archaeologist sister Dania receive a call to visit Morocco they embark on an exotic adventure throughout the Middle East on the trail of the famous Muslim explorer Ibn Battuta (1304-1369 A.D.).
Ibn Khaldun | Ibn Battuta | Husayn ibn Ali | Hasan ibn Ali | Ibn Hisham | Jābir ibn Hayyān | Ibn Ezra | Abraham ibn Ezra | Tariq ibn Ziyad | Ibn Battuta Mall | Ibn Arabi | Solomon ibn Gabirol | Ibn Saud | Ibn Hawqal | Ibn Ezra (disambiguation) | Abu Sufyan ibn Harb | Yusuf ibn Tashfin | Qazan Khan ibn Yasaur | Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari | Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University | Ibn Khordadbeh | Ibn Abi Zar | Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik | Amrus ibn Yusuf | Akhnas ibn Shariq | Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak | Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa | Zayyan ibn Mardanish | Ubayda ibn as-Samit | Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik |
It was also called as "kelikkarai", "Ninathaan mudithaan pattinam", "Sembi Nadu", "lebbat pattan"(pattan mentioned in voyages of Ibn Battuta & map displayed in Ibn Battuta Mall).
In 1352 the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta arrived in Taghaza after a 25 day journey from Sijilmasa on his way across the Sahara to Oualata to visit the Mali Empire.