One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim PilgrimageMichael Wolfe 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. |
Contents
Nasere Khosraw Persia 1050 II | 13 |
Ibn Jubayr Spain 118384 | 33 |
Ibn Battuta Morocco 1326 | 51 |
Enter the Europeans Renegades Impostors Slaves and Scholars 15031814 | 69 |
Ludovico di Varthema Bologna 1503 | 79 |
A Pilgrim with No Name Italy ca 1575 | 90 |
Joseph Pitts England ca 1685 | 102 |
Ali Bey alAbbasi Spain 1807 | 126 |
Eldon Rutter Great Britain 1925 | 329 |
Winifred Stegar Australia 1927 | 347 |
Muhammad Asad Galicia 1927 | 363 |
Harry St John Philby Great Britain 1931 | 384 |
Lady Evelyn Cobbold Great Britain 1933 | 406 |
Hamza Bogary Mecca ca 1947 | 441 |
Jalal Ale Ahmad Iran 1964 | 455 |
Malcolm X United States 1964 | 486 |
John Lewis Burckhardt Switzerland 1814 | 162 |
Sir Richard Burton Great Britain 1853 | 197 |
Her Highness Sikandar the Begum of Bhopal India 1864 | 226 |
John F Keane AngloIndia 187778 | 245 |
Mohammad Hosayn Farahani Persia 188586 | 276 |
Arthur J B Wavell AngloAfrica 1908 | 295 |
The Early Twentieth Century 192533 | 319 |
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