Journey to Mecca (2009)
In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta
45 min
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
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $13
Trailer
Cast
- Chems-Eddine Zinoune as Ibn Battutah
- Hassam Ghancy as Highwayman
- Essam Edriss as Hamza
- Nabil Elouahabi as Hamza
- Ben Kingsley as Narrator
- Nadim Sawalha as Ibn Mustapha
Crew
- Bruce Neibaur · Director
- Carl Knutson · Writer
- Bruce Neibaur · Writer
- Tahir Shah · Writer
- Jonathan Barker · Producer
- Dominic Cunningham-Reid · Producer
- Taran Davies · Producer
- Michael Brook · Composer
- Matthew Williams · Cinematographer
- Jean-Marie B. Drot · Editor
- Ahmed Boulane · Casting director
- Kate Dowd · Casting director
- Mike Fowlie · Production designer