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One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Traveller's Writing about Muslim Pilgrimage
Michael . Ed(S): Wolfe
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Paperback. Editor(s): Wolfe, Michael. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 1HB; HRH; HRLF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 35. Weight in Grams: 865.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
Number of pages
656
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780802135995
SKU
V9780802135995
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About Michael . Ed(S): Wolfe
Michael Wolfe is the author of eleven books of poetry, fiction, and travel. In 1990, he made the pilgrimage to Mecca and subsequently wrote two books on the subject, The Hadj: An American’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage. For 15 years he was the publisher of Tombouctou ... Read more
Reviews for One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Traveller's Writing about Muslim Pilgrimage
"A tradition of Muslim writing aimed at the insiders and out." The Boston Globe "Wolfe does an exemplary job of detailing the ceremonies performed at Mecca and the reasons behind them. The chosen excerpts give the readers a sense of how the hajj has changed over time as well as how constant the central ceremonies have remained. Highly recommended." ... Read more