2009· 45 min
Journey to Mecca
In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta
Drama
6.4 / 10TMDB Score
Summary
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
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Chems-Eddine Zinoune, Hassam Ghancy, Nabil Elouahabi, Nadim Sawalha
Tags
1300s14th centuryarabarabic historyislamplace name in title
