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    Journey to Mecca

    "In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta"

    2009

    45:16

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    Journey to Mecca

    Genre

    Drama
    History

    Plot

    The 20 year old Muslim religious law student Ibn Battuta (1304–1368), whose full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammed Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta, set out from Tangier, a city in northern Morocco, in 1325, on a pilgrimage to Mecca, some 3,000 miles (over 4,800 km) to the East. The journey took him 18 months to complete and along the way he met with misfortune and adversity, including attack by bandits, rescue by Bedouins, fierce sand storms and dehydration.

    Director

    Bruce Neibaur

    Writers

    Bruce Neibaur, Tahir Shah, Carl Knutson,

    Stars

    Ben Kingsley, Chems-Eddine Zinoune, Hassam Ghancy, Nabil Elouahabi, Nadim Sawalha,