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1 online resource (streaming video file) (59 min. 13 sec.) ; 358196184 bytes |
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*Coarse Language*The very British Tim Mackintosh-Smith, an Oxford University classicist who has called the Middle East his home for 25 years, takes us on a unique 75,000 mile journey, through 40 countries, in the 700-year-old footsteps of medieval explorer Ibn Battutah.This is the story of one of the greatest journeys of all time. In 1325, shortly after the end of the Crusades, a young Moroccan Muslim called Ibn Battutah set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca. It was to become an odyssey from one end of the known world to the other. In all, he travelled 75,000 miles - more than three times the distance Marco Polo covered.In episode two, Tim travels through Turkey, the Crimea and India. On his way, he uncovers all that is weird, wonderful and mystical in the Islamic world. In Konya, Tim watches an illegal whirling dervish ceremony; in the Taurus Mountains, he meets the last of the Turkoman nomads. He chats to Tatars in Crimea, and the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Istanbul.In Delhi, he searches for insights into the pathologically generous but psychotic Sultan Mohammed Shah. He watches a Muslim magician performing the Indian Rope Trick, and goes to a 'sacred jam session' of Sufi music, reliving Ibn Battutah's 'hippy phase'. Leaving Delhi, Tim meets a hundred-year-old yogi who does nothing but smoke marijuana, shout expletives and beat his devotees with a brush. Will Tim receive one of his unique 'blessings'?PRODUCTION DETAILS:A Cheetah Television production for BBC Four |
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Broadcast 2010-04-22 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377.
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Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, 1961-.
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Magicians.
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Voyages and travels.
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Turkey.
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Streaming video
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Edge, Dan, director
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Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, host
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