Contents
Foreword by Reza Aslan
One: The Medieval Period:
Three Classic Muslim Travelers, 1050–1326
1 Naser-e Khosraw, Persia, 1050
2 Ibn Jubayr, Spain, 1183–84
3 Ibn Battuta, Morocco, 1326
Two: Enter the Europeans:
Renegades, Impostors, Slaves, and Scholars, 1503–1814
4 Ludovico di Varthema, Bologna, 1503
5 A Pilgrim with No Name, Italy, ca. 1575
6 Joseph Pitts, England, ca. 1685
7 Ali Bey al-Abbasi, Spain, 1807
8 John Lewis Burckhardt, Switzerland, 1814
Three: Nineteenth-Century Changes, 1853–1908
9 Sir Richard Burton, Great Britain, 1853
10 Her Highness Sikandar, the Begum of Bhopal, India, 1864
11 John F. Keane, Anglo-India, 1877–78
12 Mohammad Hosayn Farahani, Persia, 1885–86
13 Arthur J. B. Wavell, Anglo-Africa, 1908
Four: The Early Twentieth Century, 1925–1933
14 Eldon Rutter, Great Britain, 1925
15 Winifred Stegar, Australia, 1927
16 Muhammad Asad, Galicia, 1927
17 Harry St. John Philby, Great Britain, 1931
18 Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Great Britain, 1933
Five: The Jet Age Hajj, 1947–2000
19 Hamza Bogary, Mecca, ca. 1947
20 Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Iran, 1964
21 Malcolm X, United States 1964
22 Saida Miller Khalifa, Great Britain, 1970
23 Michael Wolfe, United States, 1990
24 Abdellah Hammoudi, United States/Morocco, 1999
25 Qanta Ahmed, United States, 2001
Glossary: Names and Terms