Fez is one of Morocco’s oldest cities. The city was one of the centers for Christian, Muslim and Jewish scholars during the 10th and 11th centuries. Fez was the capital of Morocco numerous times, but it was the capital for the last time in 1912. When Ibn Battuta was going back to Morocco, he notes that Fez was the capital. Morocco has been influenced by the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

After Ibn Battuta left China, he travelled back to the Arab world. When he got to Damascus, he was told that his son had died twelve years prior to his return, and his father had died three years before his son. He also learns about the plague reaching the Arab world, and that thousands of people had died due to the black plague. This was around May or June of 1348. He moved on from Syria to Egypt then to Morocco. He was in Fez briefly, but he discusses changing his loyalty from all the sultans he had met to the highest and most noblest of sultans in Morocco. He left Fez to go visit his mother in Tangier, and then he went to Granada.