One Thousand Roads to Mecca: (Updated with New Material)
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Michael Wolfe's "exemplary" (Library Journal) collection of historical writings on the Hajj, now updated with a new introduction by Reza Aslan. Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage to Mecca, or the Hajj, has been the central theme in a large body of Islamic travel literature. Beginning with the European Renaissance, it has also been the subject for a handful of adventurous writers from the West who, through conversion or connivance, managed to slip inside the walls of a city forbidden to non-Muslims. One Thousand Roads to Mecca collects significant works by observant travel writers from the East and West over the last ten centuries. The two very different literary traditions form distinct sides of a spirited conversation in which Mecca is the common destination and Islam the common subject of inquiry. Excerpted works include travel narratives by Ibn Jubayr, Ibn Battuta, J. L. Burckhardt, Richard Burton, the Begum of Bhopal, John Keene, Winifred Stegar, Muhammad Asad, Harry St. John Philby, Lady Evelyn Cobbald, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Malcolm X, and Michael Wolfe.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0802135994
ISBN13:9780802135995
Release Date:September 1998
Publisher:Grove Press
Length:656 Pages
Weight:1.97 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Related Subjects
History Islam Middle East Religion Religion & Spirituality Saudi Arabia Travel Travel Writing WritingCustomer Reviews
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