Journey to Mecca

    Journey to Mecca
    2009

    Synopsis

    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.

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      Cast

      • Ben KingsleyNarrator
      • Chems-Eddine ZinouneIbn Battutah
      • Hassam GhancyHighwayman
      • Nabil ElouahabiHamza
      • Nadim SawalhaIbn Mustapha

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