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Foreword © 2015 by Reza Aslan

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Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wolfe, Michael, 1945–

One thousand roads to Mecca : ten centuries of travelers writing

about the Muslim pilgrimage / Michael Wolfe.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8021-3599-5

eISBN 978-0-8021-9220-2

1. Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages—Saudi Arabia—Mecca.

I. Title.

BP187.3.W66 1997

297.3'52—dc21 97-1329

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