Journey to Mecca

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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.

Country:

Canada,

United States of America

Genre:

Drama,

History

Duration:

45 minutes

Year:

2009

Director:

Bruce Neibaur

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Company:

Eagle Vision Media Group,

SK Films,

Cosmic Picture,

Desert Door Productions,

Dounia Productions

Cast:
Ben Kingsley

Narrator

Chems-Eddine Zinoune

Ibn Battutah

Hassam Ghancy

Highwayman

Nabil Elouahabi

Hamza

Nadim Sawalha

Ibn Mustapha

Crew:
Ahmed Boulane

Casting

Bruce Neibaur

Writer

Mike Fowlie

Production Design

Tahir Shah

Writer

Dominic Cunningham-Reid

Producer