From the Book - 1st pbk. ed.
Medieval period: three classic Muslim travelers, 1050-1326
Ibn Jubayr, Spain, 1183-1184
Ibn Battuta, Morocco, 1326
Enter the Europeans: renegades, impostors, slaves, and scholars, 1503-1814
Ludovico di Varthema, Bologna, 1503
A pilgrim with no name, Italy, ca. 1575
Joseph Pitts, England, ca. 1685
Ali Bey al-Abbasi, Spain, 1807
John Lewis Burckhardy, Switzerland, 1814
Nineteenth-century changes, 1853-1908
Sir Richard Burton, Great Britain, 1853
Her Highness Sikandar, the Begum of Bhopal, India, 1864
John F. Keane, Anglo-India, 1877-1878
Mohammad Hosayn Farahani, Persia, 1885-86
Arthur J. B. Wavell, Anglo-Afica, 1908
Early twentieth century, 1925-33
Eldon Rutter, Great Britain, 1925
Winifred Stegar, Australia, 1927
Muhammad Asad, Galicia, 1927
Harry St. John Philby, Great Britain, 1931
Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Great Britain, 1933
Hamza Bogary, Mecca, ca. 1947
Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Iran, 1964
Malcolm X, United States, 1964
Saida Miller Khalifa, Great Britain, 1970
Michael Wolfe, United States, 1990.
The medieval period: three classic Muslim travelers, 1050-1326
Enter the Europeans: renegades, impostors, slaves, and scholars, 1503-1814
Nineteenth-century changes, 1853-1908
The early twentieth century, 1925-33
The jet age Hajj, 1947-90.