Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land

by F.E. Peters

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069103267X
• ISBN13: 9780691032672
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.8" x 10.0"