Released:
2009-01-07

Overview:
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.

Director:
Bruce Neibaur

Runtime:
0h 45min

Genre:
Drama, History

• Cast:
• 
  Ben Kingsley
  as
  Narrator
• 
  Chems-Eddine Zinoune
  as
  Ibn Battutah
• 
  Hassam Ghancy
  as
  Highwayman
• 
  Nabil Elouahabi
  as
  Hamza
• 
  Nadim Sawalha
  as
  Ibn Mustapha