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    Nadim Sawalha

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    Ibn Mustapha

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    Journey to Mecca 2009 POSTER

    Journey to Mecca

    2009

    English

    7.1

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    Drama

    History

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