Standing Alone in Mecca
Subtitle: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: February 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780060571443
Subjects: Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimage; Women's Studies - General; Religious; Islam - Rituals & Practice; Biography And Autobiography; Islam; Saudi Arabia; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Religion; Biography/Autobiography; Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages; Mecca; Religion / Islam / Rituals & Practice; Religious aspects; Women; Women in Islam; Feminism
First sentence: ALLAHABAD, INDIA-One hot winter afternoon, I was lost in India on the banks of the Ganges, a river holy to Hindus.