One Thousand Roads to Mecca
Subtitle: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: September 22, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780802135995
Subjects: Islam; Pilgrimage; Travel writing; Middle East - General; History; History - General History; Religion; North Africa; Islam - General; Travel / Essays & Travelogues
First sentence: The Persian Naser-e Khosraw (1003-1077), the Iberian Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217), and the Moroccan Ibn Battuta (1303 or 1304-1368 or 1369) were all civil servants, educated men, and devout Muslims.