Queen Rehendi Kilege compelled him to marry into the royal family, and he spent several months at her court in the Maldives before being forced to leave for plotting a coup against the government.  
Queen Rehendi Kilege compelled him to marry into the royal family, and he spent several months at her court in the Maldives before being forced to leave for plotting a coup against the government.  After being shipwrecked while sailing along the Coromandel Coast, he met up with his brother-in-law Ghiyath al-Din, but after the latter died of the plague at Pattan he went to China.  He befriended Bayalun, the daughter of the Byzantine emperor Andronicus who had been married to Khan Ozbeg of the Golden Horde, and accompanied her to Constantinople.  While living in Fez, his stories so entertained Sultan Abu'Inan that the court poet Ibn Juzayy was assigned to transcribe them, which he did in the book A Gift to Those who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities, which is better known as the Rihla or Travels.  FTP, name this native of Tangier, a 14th century judge who is known as the "Arab Marco Polo."
Queen Rehendi Kilege compelled him to marry into the royal family, and he spent several months at her court in the Maldives before being forced to leave for plotting a coup against the government.  
Ibn Battuta