The Hadj: An American Pilgrimage to Mecca Paperback - 1998
by Michael Wolfe
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Early one night in April in the month of Ramadan, I found myself at New York's Kennedy Airport, booked aboard a night flight bound for Brussels, on the first leg of a long trip to Tangier.
From the rear cover
The hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are enjoined to make once in their lifetimes. Its purpose is to detach human beings from their homelands and, by bringing them to Mecca, temporarily reinstate the equality of all people before God. One of the world's longest-lived religious rites, the hadj has continued without break for fourteen hundred years. It is, like most things Islamic, shrouded in mystery for Westerners. In his new book, Michael Wolfe, an American-born writer and recent Muslim convert, recounts his experiences on this journey, and in the process brings readers closer to the meaning of Islam. Wolfe's book bridges the high points of the Muslim calendar, beginning in April with the annual month-long fast of Ramadan. In Morocco, he settles into daily life with a merchant family in the ancient quarter of Marrakesh. During his three-month stay, he explores the intricate traditional life of Muslim Morocco. His accounts of this time deepen our feeling for Islam, a faith that claims one-sixth of the world's population. As summer approaches, he travels north to Tangier, where he visits Western writers and Moroccan mystics. In June, he arrives in Mecca, a city closed to all but Muslims. The protean experience of the hadj, and the real Mecca, that most religious and mysterious of cities, are captured in the last half of the book. Inevitably, the buildup to the Gulf War hovers in the background - the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait is just weeks away. Yet it is the author's participation in the age-old rites of the hadj that most preoccupies his thoughts, strengthening his bond to the faith he has embraced as an outsider, developing and transforming it, makingit personal and alive.
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- Title The Hadj: An American Pilgrimage to Mecca
- Author Michael Wolfe
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grove Press, New York
- Date 1998-09-02
- ISBN 9780802135865 / 0802135862
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.18 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 15.70 x 2.29 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Ethnic Orientation: Middle Eastern
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
- Dewey Decimal Code 297
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