The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0802135862
ISBN 13
9780802135865
Category
Understanding Islam
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
352
Description
The Hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to the house of God at Mecca that all Muslims are asked to make once in their lifetimes. One of the world’s longest-lived religious rites, having continued without break for fourteen hundred years, it is, like all things Islamic, shrouded in mystery for Westerners. In The Hadj, Michael Wolfe, an American who converted to Islam, recounts his own journey a pilgrim, and in doing so brings readers close to the heart of what the pilgrimage means to a member of the religion that claims one-sixth of the world’s population. Not since Sir Richard Burton’s account of the pilgrimage to Mecca over one hundred years ago has a Western writer described the Hadj in such fascinating detail. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
