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Journey To Mecca (2009 Film)
''Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta'' is an IMAX ("giant screen") dramatised documentary film charting the first real-life journey made by the Islamic scholar Ibn Battuta from his native Morocco to Mecca for the Hajj (Muslim pilgrimage), in 1325. Background The 20-year-old Muslim religious law student Ibn Battuta (1304–1368), Annotated edition (September 30, 2004). Segoogle book search 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. Ibn Battuta spent a total of 29 years 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. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taran Davies
Taran Davies is a film producer and Film director, director best known for his documentary film ''Afghan Stories'' (2002), and the IMAX feature documentary ''Journey to Mecca'' (2009). Life and education Davies was born in New York City and raised in London and Hong Kong. He graduated from Harvard University in 1993 with a BA in English and American Literature, and studied documentary filmmaking with Richard Rogers, Director of the Film Study Center at The Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Film Studies at Harvard. Career Davies founded Wicklow Films in 1994 to produce, direct and write a series of films about the Islamic world. Three - ''Afghan Stories'', ''Mountain Men and Holy Wars'' and ''The Land Beyond the River'' - were broadcast on the Sundance Channel in March 2003 with its FilmFest ''Portraits of Islam''. ''The Land Beyond the River'' (1998) is about his journey through Central Asia in 1995. It was broadcast by PBS in November 1997 and was shot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The National Post
The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with Monday released as a digital e-edition only.National Post to eliminate Monday print edition , June 19, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017 The newspaper is distributed in the provinces of , |
