One Thousand Roads to Mecca michael rea The notes are designed to

The notes are designed to equip students for personal practice and to prepare them for more advanced studies

This book (previously published as I Am Wind

" is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world

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One Thousand Roads to Mecca michael rea The notes are designed toSince its inception in the seventh century, the pilgrimage to Mecca, or the Hajj, has been the central theme in a large body of Islamic travel literature. Beginning with the European Renaissance, it has also been the subject for a handful of adventurous writers from the West who, through conversion or connivance, managed to slip inside the walls of a city forbidden to non Muslims. One Thousand Roads to Mecca collects significant works by observant