
Journey to Mecca
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.
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Director: Bruce Neibaur, Charles Jodoin-Keaton
Actors: Chems-Eddine Zinoune, Essam Edriss, Hassam Ghancy
Keywords:islam reference to abraham reference to hagar the mother of ishmael reference to ishmael reference to muhammad