Journey to Mecca

In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta

Genres: Drama, History

Counries: Canada, United States of America

Companies: Eagle Vision Media Group, SK Films, Cosmic Picture, Desert Door Productions, Dounia Productions

Runtime: 45 minutes

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.