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The Man Who Walked Across the World

Miniseries

2007 · 3 episodes

  1. 1. Wanderlust

    2007-09-13

    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.

  2. 2. Magicians and Mystics

    2007-09-20

    In Turkey, Tim watches an illegal whirling dervish ceremony, and in the Taurus mountains he meets the last of the Turkoman nomads.

  3. 3. Trade Winds

    2007-09-27

    He explores the place of Islam in Hindu-dominated India and communist China, and tells the story of the Islamic trade empire of the 14th century.

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