Journey to Mecca

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.

Cast

Ben Kingsley

Narrator

N/A

Chems-Eddine Zinoune

Ibn Battutah

Hassam Ghancy

Highwayman

Nabil Elouahabi

Hamza

Nadim Sawalha

Ibn Mustapha