One Thousand Roads to Mecca: (Updated with New Material)

by Michael Wolfe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802135994
• ISBN13: 9780802135995
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"