Journey to Mecca

About 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 att…

Bruce Neibaur's Journey to Mecca is a 2009 history film.

Ben Kingsley appears as Narrator, Chems-Eddine Zinoune as Ibn Battutah, Hassam Ghancy as Highwayman, and Nabil Elouahabi as Hamza. Released in January 2009, it runs 45 minutes.

The screenplay is by Bruce Neibaur and Carl Knutson. It streams on Alchemiya Amazon Channel in the United States.