Acknowledgments

Thanks go to my brother Daniel Wolfe for rescuing the initial notebook from which this collection grew. The project might have otherwise been abandoned. And to

• Abdullah Ankawi, Hajj scholar in Jidda, for documents and valuable discussion
• Professor Edmund Burke III, University of California at Santa Cruz, for instruction, direction, and advice
• Professor Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona, for her responses to an early draft on Muslim Spain
• Vanessa Corrick, Assistant Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, for bibliographic assistance
• Professor Alan Abd al-Haqq Godlas, University of Georgia, for help with the Glossary
• Winmai Juniwan, in England, for bibliographic assistance
• Ibrahim Jastaniya, Office of the Vice-Minister of Hajj, Mecca, for documents on, and guidance in, Mecca
• Alex Kronemer, for valuable comments on the General Introduction
• Jamal Nasef, Acting Director, Department of Information, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Washington, D.C., for providing useful data in translation
• Professor Michael Pearson, University of South Wales, for valuable comments on the Indian Ocean Hajj
• Hatim Qadi, Vice Minister of Pilgrimage, for assistance in Mecca
• Alan Ritch, McHenry Library, University of California, Santa Cruz, for locating the hard-to-find volumes excerpted here
• Munir Sperling, for bringing Idries Shah’s Hajj account to my attention
• Mahmud bin Muhammad Safar, Minister of Pilgrimages, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for detailed facts and statistics on the Hajj since 1945
• Abigail Winograd, for copy editing
• and to my friends Sam Amico, Kebir Helminski, Shaykh Khalil al-Khalil, Jo Menell, Jay Schumann, and Cathy Summa, all of whom were helpful in their ways