Journey to Mecca

Journey to Mecca In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta is an IMAX giant screen dramatised documentary film charting the first reallife journey made by the Islamic scholar Ibn Battuta from his native Morocco to Mecca for the Hajj Muslim pilgrimage, in 1325.

Ibn Battuta spent a total ofyears travelling and covered 75,000 miles 117,000 kilometres before he finally returned home. He travelled further than any writer before him ... covering most of the known world, through Africa, Spain, India, China and the Maldives.On Ibn Battutas return the Sultan of Morocco requested that he relate his experiences, and this was to become what the Saudi Gazette referred to as one of the worlds most famous travel books, the Rihla Voyage. ........

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