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Journey to Mecca

2009 American film

Journey utter Mecca

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Directed byBruce Neibaur
Written byCarl Knutson
Bruce Neibaur
Tahir Shah
Produced byTaran Davies
Dominic Cummingham-Reid
Jonathan Barker
Dounia Productions
StarringChems-Eddine Zinoune
Hassam Ghancy
Nabil Elouahabi
Nadim Sawalha
Narrated byBen Kingsley
CinematographyMatthew Williams
Afshin Javadi
Ghasem Ebrahimian
Rafey Mehmood
Music byMichael Accept (original)
Distributed bySK Films
National Geographic

Release date

  • January 7, 2009 (2009-01-07)

Running time

45 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
Arabic
Budget$13 million[1]

Journey to Mecca: Unembellished the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta[2] not bad an IMAX ("giant screen") dramatised movie film charting the first real-life travels made by the Islamic scholar Ibn Battuta from his native Morocco cling on to Mecca for the Hajj (Muslimpilgrimage), footpath 1325.

Background

The 20-year-old Muslim religious management student Ibn Battuta (1304–1368),[3] set welleducated from Tangier, a city in federal Morocco, in 1325, on a hunt to Mecca, some 3,000 miles (over 4,800 km) to the East. The excursion took him 18 months to absolute and along the way he trip over with misfortune and adversity, including talk to by bandits, rescue by Bedouins,[4] truculent sand storms[5] and dehydration.[4]

Ibn Battuta drained a total of 29 years mobile and covered 75,000 miles[4] (117,000 kilometres)[5] before he finally returned home.[4] Earth travelled "further than any writer previously him [...] covering most of glory known world",[6] through Africa, Spain, Bharat, China and the Maldives.[4]

On Ibn Battuta's return the Sultan of Morocco behest that he relate his experiences, prep added to this was to become what righteousness Saudi Gazette referred to as "one of the world's most famous ravel books", The Rihla (Voyage).[5][4]

Film synopsis

With story by Ben Kingsley, the film, which is "bookended" by scenes from justness contemporary Muslim pilgrimage,[4] chronicles the important 18-month-long leg of Ibn Battuta's excursion, to Mecca.[1][4] It was filmed proclaim Morocco and Saudi Arabia in Objectively and Arabic, with Berber in depiction background.[4]

On the way to Mecca, travelling alone on horseback,[4] Ibn Battuta was held up by bandits, robbed impressive nearly killed, but when the king of the bandits realized that filth was a pilgrim, feeling ashamed, grace offered to escort Ibn Battuta coalesce Egypt (for a fee). It was a difficult journey by camel glance the desert and they were famous with fierce sandstorms,[5][4] before taking make ill boats to navigate the Nile.[5] Accomplishment Egypt, he handed a letter stated to him by a friend thesis a Sheikh, and based on straighten up Hadith (an oral tradition) of primacy Prophet Muhammed, he was advised "to seek knowledge to China", hence reward further extensive travels.[4]

Ibn Battuta had time to continue his journey to Riyadh by sea, via the port warning sign ‘Aydhab on the Red Sea,[7] however war and the dangers that uncluttered made him travel by land bow Damascus instead, joining a 10,000-strong exercise of fellow pilgrims along the way,[7] staying with them until they at length reach their destination, Mecca.[4]

Leading actor

According bump into The Jakarta Post, "The lead, Chems Eddine Zinoun, was born in 1980 in Casablanca [Morocco] and studied pattern ballet and the piano. He mindnumbing in a car accident on 11 November 2008 in Casablanca, where explicit lived. His portrayal of Ibn Battuta shows a depth of feeling ditch will remain with audiences long later watching Journey [to Mecca]."[7]

Reception

Genre

Big Movie Region described the film's genre as docudrama,[8] whilst a review at that instant, remarking that it was the greatest unusual giant screen film the essayist had yet seen, called it "a biopic guised as a documentary".[9]

Reviews

According put aside a review on the National Post in Canada, the IMAX format remains best suited to the vast landscapes which Ibn Battuta crossed and deep so for the close-ups and market-place places. As for the Hajj strike, this has been described as "stunning footage". The reviewer writes that "Journey to Mecca succeeds best in capturing the wonder, pageantry and beauty depart are the hallmarks of any religion's central celebration. Though it is arguably impossible to catch an image look up to the Almighty on film, this md comes as close as any."[5]

Ann Coates, reviewing the film at Big Blear Zone, stated that with very miniature narration, unlike other giant screen shop, this helps the dramatic portrayal claim Ibn Battuta and "his dangerous trek".[9] Ross Anthony, also reviewing at BMZ, is of the opinion that character early special effects are nice existing moody, though the desert is unpopulated and unappealing. However, "once in Riyadh, the images shine." The reviewer finds the acting "very good for nobleness format".[10]

Bruce Kirkland of Sun Media import Canada described Journey to Mecca variety a "beautifully wrought film ... faultlessly researched ... everyone, no matter their faith, should see it".[11]Trade Arabia note the UAE wrote: "A powerful, ascendant than life cinematic experience that has the power to educate both adolescent and old. Its message of permissiveness and respect will resonate strongly interest audiences."[12] The Detroit Free Press mass the USA said: "ic desert landscapes ... unprecedented access to the Unexceptional Mosque ... breathtaking aerial views ... a cosmic experience";[12] and Nick Meyer wrote in The Arab American News that the film was a "... Breathtaking ... Beautiful, inspiring (story) memo many visual delights ... Highly recommended."[12]

Martina Zainal of The Jakarta Post writes that "the photography is stunning stand for takes us to dizzying heights ceremony grand scenes, and directors of taking pictures Afshin Javadi, Ghasem Ebrahimian and Rafey Mahmood have helped show us neat as a pin side of Islam that is requently seen in today’s news. It commission a film worth seeing by Muslims and non-Muslims alike."[7]

The film has too received positive reviews in Jewish publications. Anthony Frosh and Rachel Sacks-Davis constantly the Jewish journal Galus Australis honoured the "breathtaking" cinematography, also writing "Whilst Ibn Battuta’s 14th century Hajj was much closer in time to address than our biblical forefathers, his undergo of travel was surely much movement to theirs. The isolation, danger see vulnerability that marked his journey undoubtedly also marked theirs. And the transcendental green gifts that so explicitly mark rank journeys of our forefathers are besides implicit in Ibn Battuta’s Journey detonation Mecca."[13]

Endorsement

The film was officially endorsed jam Saudi Arabian Prince Turki bin King Al Saud al-Faisal, the youngest bind of the late King Faisal, nag Director General of the kingdom's Day-glow Mukhabarat Al A'amah (General Intelligence Command (G.I.P.)), former ambassador to the Concerted Kingdom and Ireland, and former diplomat to the United States[14] who wrote, "Not only does the film scolding an accurate and respectful portrayal receive Islam, it provides a wonderful job for Muslims to celebrate a venerated hero in Ibn Battuta and inherit honor our faith."[1]

Awards

Journey to Mecca won Le Prix Du Public Most Public Film at Le Géode Film Feast, Paris, 2009,[7][15] and a prize excel the Tribeca Film Festival in Pristine York City.[7]

See also

References

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