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1 online resource |
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Intro; OneThousand Roads to Mecca; Books by Michael Wolfe; One Thousand Roads to Mecca; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part One: The Medieval Period: Three Classic Muslim Travelers, 1050-1326; 1 Naser-e Khosraw, Persia, 1050; 2 Ibn Jubayr, Spain, 1183-84; 3 Ibn Battuta, Morocco, 1326; Part Two: Enter the Europeans: Renagades, Imposters, Slaves, and Scholars, 1503-1814; 4 Ludovico di Varthema, Bologna, 1503; 5 A Pilgrim with No Name, Italy ca. 1575; 6 Joseph Pitts, England ca. 1685; 7 Ali Bey al-abbasi, Spain, 1807; 8 John Lewis Burckhardt, Switzerland, 1814 |
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Part Three: Nineteenth-Century Changes, 1853-19089 Sir Richard Burton, Great Britain, 1853; 10 Her Highness Sikandar, the Begum of Bhopal, India, 1864; 11 John F. Keane, Anglo-India, 1877-78; 12 Mohammad Hosayn Farahani, Persia, 1885-86; 13 Arthur J.B. Wavell, Anglo-Africa, 1908; Part Four: The Early Twentieth Century, 1925-1933; 14 Eldon Rutter, Great Britain, 1925; 15 Winifred Stegar, Australia, 1927; 16 Muhammad Asad, Galicia, 1927; 17 Harry St. John Philby, Great Britain, 1931; 18 Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Great Britain, 1933; Part Five: The Jet Age Hajj, 1947-2000 |
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19 Hamza Bogary, Mecca, ca. 194720 Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Iran, 1964; 21 Malcolm X, United States, 1964; 22 Saida Miller Khalifa, Great Britain, 1970; 23 Michael Wolfe, United States, 1990; 24 Abdellah Hammoudi, United States/Morocco, 1999; 25 Qanta Ahmed, United States, 2001; Maps; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Glossary: Names and Terms; Selected Bibliography; Index; Back Cover |
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This updated and expanded edition of One Thousand Roads to Mecca collects significant works by observant travel writers from the East and West over the last ten centuries-including two new contemporary narratives-creating a comprehensive, multifaceted literary portrait of the enduring tradition. Since its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage to Mecca 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. These very different literary traditions form distinct impressions of a spirited conversation in which Mecca is the common destination and Islam the common subject of inquiry. Featured writers include Ibn Battuta, J.L. Burckhardt, Sir Richard Burton, the Begum of Bhopal, John Keene, Winifred Stegar, Muhammad Asad, Lady Evelyn Cobbald, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, and Malcolm X. One Thousand Roads to Mecca is a historically, geographically, and ethnically diverse collection of travel writing that adds substantially to the literature of Islam and the West |
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Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed April 25, 2016) |
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History.
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history (discipline)
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780802192202 |
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0802192203 |
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