Mecca : : A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land /

Mecca : : A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land / / F. E. Peters.

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 l...

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VerfasserIn:
Peters, F. E.,
MitwirkendeR:
Gavin, C. E. S.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©1994
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5200
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Physical Description:1 online resource (520 p.) :; 23 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List Of Illustrations
  • Mecca and Medina in Early Photo Documents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Maps
  • Chapter I. A Speculative History of Mecca in the Age of Ignorance
  • Chapter II. Muhammad: Medina and After
  • Chapter III. Building the Holy Land
  • Chapter IV. Caught in the Spice Chain: Europe and the Hijaz
  • Chapter V. The Ottoman Hijaz
  • Chapter VI. The Two Sanctuaries
  • Chapter VII. The Wars of the Kings
  • Chapter VIII. King and Caliph: The Sharifate of Husayn ibn Ali (1908–1925)
  • Chronology of Mecca and the Hajj
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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