Journey to Mecca

In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta

Journey to Mecca — 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.

• Release date
• January 7, 2009
• Runtime
• 45 min
• Genres
• Drama, History
• Director
• Bruce Neibaur

Journey to Mecca — Cast

Ben Kingsley Narrator

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Chems-Eddine Zinoune Ibn Battutah Hassam Ghancy Highwayman Nabil Elouahabi Hamza Nadim Sawalha Ibn Mustapha