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Wanderlust

Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows in the footsteps of 14th Century Moroccan scholar and traveller, Ibn Battutah. In Cairo, Tim visits Al Azhar, the world's oldest university.

Series of documentary travelogues in which Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows in the footsteps of 14th Century Moroccan scholar Ibn Battutah, who covered 75,000 miles, 40 countries and three continents in a 30-year odyssey. Beginning in north Africa, Tim visits Battutah's birthplace of Tangier in Morocco, and stumbles on a performance of medieval trance music. In Egypt, he goes to a remote village where Battutah had an astonishing prophetic dream and visits the world's oldest university in Cairo.

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Tue 5 Aug 2008 00:20

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