Journey to Mecca

Release Date: 2009-01-07

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.389 / 10

Cast

Ben Kingsley

as Narrator

Chems-Eddine Zinoune

as Ibn Battutah

Hassam Ghancy

as Highwayman

Nabil Elouahabi

as Hamza

Nadim Sawalha

as Ibn Mustapha