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Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land

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 | #2959624 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  1994-10-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.54 x6.57 x9.56l, | File type: PDF | 504 pages

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||2 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Mecca|By Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum, Philadelphia|"Mecca" is a companion volume to Peters' earlier 1994 study, "The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places" (reviewed in Middle East Quarterly, September 1994). That book focuses on the experience of the pilgrimage, in Mecca and outside it; this one focuses on the geography and history of what Peters calls|From Library Journal|To most Westerners, the sacred Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina and their surrounding haram (the area off-limits to non-Muslims) are exotic, hidden places. We know that they are the destinations of the great annual pilgrimage called the ha

For the non-Muslim, Mecca is the most forbidden of Holy Cities--and yet, in many ways it is the best known. Muslim historians and geographers have studied it, and countless pilgrims and travelers--many of them European Christians in disguise--have left behind lively and well-publicized accounts of life in Mecca and its associated shrine-city of Medina, where the Prophet lies buried. The stories of all these figures, holy men and heathens alike, come together in...

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