4. LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY

4. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity ~ 159 ~ through this whole region for education, commerce and other purposes. It was in this period, in the fourteenth century, that Ibn Batuta, the well-known traveller of the Middle Ages, covered about 75 thousand miles in the course of his journeying. He was able to go from one country to another without any feeling of being a stranger, and nowhere did he face the problem of unemployment. He came to India in the reign of Muhammad ibn Tughlaq (1325-51) where he was received with honours and gifts, and later appointed Grand Qadi (Judge) of Delhi. 78 It was as a result of this universal revolution that all human beings could now be said to belong to one vast human brotherhood, a concept which rapidly came to dominate thinking all over the world. It first dominated the society of Medina, then it formed its centre in Damascus, from which point it reached Baghdad. From Spain it reached Sicily, and then went on to other European countries. Although the greater part of Europe did not accept the Islamic concept of monotheism in respect of religion, it did, however, apply it to the universe—a