Mentions the different aspects of Makkah, and records the important historical events that have direct effect on the establishment and sacredness of Makkah as w

Mecca is, for many, the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction to which Muslims turn when they pray, and the site of pilgrimage that an

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, a

An urban history of Jeddah from the late Ottoman period to the present day, seen through its diverse and changing population.

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globaliz