Ibn Wahab was a trader in China on business not to observe their culture, unlike Ibn Battuta who traveled from one Islamic state to another noting the observations he made about They . Ibn Battuta valued each culture he visited and therefore had more experience seeing the nuances of a culture. He also maintained a sense of superiority towards foreign states when they got a habit wrong or had a different one. Like in Mali when he is promised a gift and instead of money or clothes he instead receives bread and beef. When Ibn Battuta visited Mali, he focused primarily on the interactions he had with the royals and how they conducted business, with some digressions on the interactions he had with the broader public. Ibn Wahab also focused on the elites in his interaction with the Chinese emperor, detailing how the emperor explored responses to the workings of the Islamic faith and the Chinese traditions that influenced Islam in that country. This demonstrates the priority given to the elites of society by Islamic thinkers and the emphasis this had on the spread of Islam in these states, whilst maintaining a sense of superiority over the “lesser””