Name: The Man Who Walked Across the World
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-09-13

Episodes

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. 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. 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.