The Hajj

The Hajj
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : 069102619X
ISBN-13 : 9780691026190
Rating : 4/5 (190 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Hajj by : F. E. Peters

Download or read book The Hajj written by F. E. Peters and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of first hand accounts of travellers on Muslim pilgramages provides a literary history of the central ritual of Islam, from its remote pre-Islamic origins to the end of the Hashimite Kingdom of the Hijaz in 1926.


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