Question for Feb. 22nd - Identify X.

X was a Moroccan scholar and traveler who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla ("The Journey") in Arabic. His journeys lasted for a period of nearly thirty years and covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world and beyond, extending from North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance readily surpassing that of his predecessors and his near-contemporary Marco Polo. X also served as a Qazi (judge) in the Delhi Sultanate under Sultan Muhammad bin Tuglaq.

There is a famous hindi poem about X by the late poet Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena. The poem was recently in the center of a plagirism controversy involving a famous Bollywood songwriter.