The Hadj
Subtitle: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: September 2, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780802135865
Subjects: Islam; Travel writing; Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Middle East - General; Religion - World Religions; United States; Travel; North Africa; Islam - General; Travel / Essays & Travelogues; Mecca; Essays & Travelogues; Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages; Muslims; Saudi Arabia
First sentence: Early one night in April in the month of Ramadan, I found myself at New York's Kennedy Airport, booked aboard a night flight bound for Brussels, on the first leg of a long trip to Tangier.