Journey to Mecca 2009

In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta

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Drama History

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.

Homepage http://www.journeytomeccagiantscreen.com/
Release Date 2009-01-07
Runtime 45m
Directors Bruce Neibaur, Matthew Williams
Producers Dominic Cunningham-Reid, Taran Davies, Jonathan Barker
Writers Tahir Shah, Bruce Neibaur, Carl Knutson