Mecca Bound
Robert Irwin, 21 July 1994
The Hajj: Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places
by F.E. Peters.
Princeton, 399 pp., £19.95, July 1994,0 691 02120 1 Show More
by F.E. Peters.
Princeton, 399 pp., £19.95, July 1994,
Pilgrims and Sultans: The Hajj under the Ottomans
by Suraiya Faroqhi.
Tauris, 244 pp., £34.50, May 1994,1 85043 606 1 Show More
by Suraiya Faroqhi.
Tauris, 244 pp., £34.50, May 1994,
The Hadj: A Pilgrimage to Mecca
by Michael Wolfe.
Secker, 331 pp., £19.99, January 1994,0 436 58404 2 Show More
by Michael Wolfe.
Secker, 331 pp., £19.99, January 1994,
“... are chary of investigating the passions aroused by the Muslim’s performance of its rituals. F.E. Peters’s The Hajj provides a clear and accurate picture of the organisation of those rituals, drawing on the travel narratives of, among others, al-Harawi, the 11th-century Shi’ite enthusiast for pilgrimages of all sorts; Ibn Jubayr, the 12th-century ... ”
