Journey to Mecca

Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. Tangier is a city in northern Morocco. His full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammed Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta. He was studying religious law. He set out when he was twenty. The year was 1325. Where he was going was Mecca. The distance came to more than four thousand eight hundred kilometres. The journey took him eighteen months. A great deal happened on the way. He was attacked by bandits. Bedouins rescued him. He met sandstorms. He went without water. Ibn Battuta died in 1368. The film stages that journey. Ben Kingsley narrates. Chems-Eddine Zinoune and Nadim Sawalha appear in the forty five minute film, a Canadian and American production Bruce Neibaur finished in 2009.