Journey to Mecca

January. 07,2009      
Rating:
7.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Ben Kingsley as  Narrator
Hassam Ghancy as  Highwayman
Nabil Elouahabi as  Hamza
Nadim Sawalha as  Ibn Mustapha