Asānīd wa Ijāzāt

Chains of transmission and scholarly licenses — the academic credentials Ibn Battuta collected from the greatest scholars of his age as he passed through their cities. Receiving an ijaza (permission to transmit a scholar's knowledge or texts in their name) was the medieval Islamic equivalent of an academic degree, except that it represented a personal link in a living chain connecting the recipient back through the teacher's teachers to the original sources. Ibn Battuta met and received ijazat from scholars across Egypt, the Levant, Arabia, Persia, India, and beyond. This practice of collecting scholarly chains was as central to his journey's purpose as the geographical coverage — he was building his position in the global Muslim scholarly community with each encounter.

As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Battuta and the scholars of his school.