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Journey to Mecca (2009)
Directed by Bruce Neibaur
“In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta”
Drama, History · 45m
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
Hassam Ghancy
Nabil Elouahabi
Nadim Sawalha
Crew
- Director
- Bruce Neibaur
- Writer
- Bruce Neibaur, Tahir Shah, Carl Knutson
- Director of Photography
- Matthew Williams
- Original Music Composer
- Michael Brook
- Producer
- Dominic Cunningham-Reid, Taran Davies, Jonathan Barker
Details
- Original title
- Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta
- Release date
- 2009-01-07
- Runtime
- 45m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Arabic
- Countries
- Canada, United States of America
- Production
- Eagle Vision Media Group, SK Films, Cosmic Picture, Desert Door Productions, Dounia Productions
- Budget
- $13