Pilgrimage to Mecca: The Indian Experience, 1500-1800

by Michael N. Pearson

An analysis of pilgrimages to Mecca in the early modern period. The rise of the Mughal and Safavid Perslan empires and the emergence of the Wahhabi movement in Arabia mark the beginning and end points... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558760903
• ISBN13: 9781558760905
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Marcus Wiener
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

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PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA

"One wishes that all religions of the east had such sympathetic farangis." -Hindustan Times " . . . an impressive work of scholarship, deftly written and exceedingly well organized." -Midwest Book Review