Mecca Bound
Robert Irwin
- The Hajj: Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places by F.E. Peters
Princeton, 399 pp, £19.95, July 1994, ISBN 0 691 02120 1 - Pilgrims and Sultans: The Hajj under the Ottomans by Suraiya Faroqhi
Tauris, 244 pp, £34.50, May 1994, ISBN 1 85043 606 1 - The Hadj: A Pilgrimage to Mecca by Michael Wolfe
Secker, 331 pp, £19.99, January 1994, ISBN 0 436 58404 2
In the section of The Anatomy of Melancholy devoted to the perils of religious enthusiasm, Robert Burton pauses briefly to comment on the complex and meritorious rituals of the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca:
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Vol. 16 No. 14 · 21 July 1994 » Robert Irwin » Mecca Bound (print version)
pages 10-11 | 2867 words