Ibn Battuta, the traveler, and how did he portray Islamic society in his time?

Ibn Battuta was nothing but a lamp that burned itself to illuminate others and to explain to the people what they did not know, and to market to them different types of economic conditions and different colors of social behavior... and to humbly present to them an innovative effort, and an answer that traveled the horizons in describing the country and its tranquility and its plain natural surroundings around the rivers. And the seas, even the difficult life and the harshness of living between the bends of the reefs and the twists of the deserts... And to paint before the viewers a clear-cut picture, with limited divisions, of the conditions of Muslims. The situation of people in Islamic society, whether in the East or in the West, whether they lean toward the south or move toward the north.