Mecca Bound
Robert Irwin, 21 July 1994
The Hajj: Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places
by F.E. Peters.
Princeton, 399 pp., £19.95, July 1994,0 691 02120 1 Show More
by F.E. Peters.
Princeton, 399 pp., £19.95, July 1994,
Pilgrims and Sultans: The Hajj under the Ottomans
by Suraiya Faroqhi.
Tauris, 244 pp., £34.50, May 1994,1 85043 606 1 Show More
by Suraiya Faroqhi.
Tauris, 244 pp., £34.50, May 1994,
The Hadj: A Pilgrimage to Mecca
by Michael Wolfe.
Secker, 331 pp., £19.99, January 1994,0 436 58404 2 Show More
by Michael Wolfe.
Secker, 331 pp., £19.99, January 1994,
“... one’s duty to obey God. Pilgrims and Sultans covers the 16th and 17th centuries. Like Peters, Suraiya Faroqhi concentrates on the external aspects of the hajj, its logistics, politics and economics. She is very good on the architectural and other patronage extended by the Ottoman sultans to the holy places and their inhabitants. She reveals that ... ”
