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Lost in the Crowd, by Jalal Al-e Ahmad, translated by John Green, introduction by Michael Hillmann, 1984. By permission of Lynn Rienner, Publisher.
The Road to Mecca, by Muhammad Asad, 1952. By permission of Dar Al-Andalus Limited, Gibraltar.
The Sheltered Quarter: A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca, by Hamza Bogary, 1991. By permission of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Pilgrimage to Mecca, by Evelyn Cobbold, 1934. By Permission of John Murray (Publishers) Ltd.
A Shi’ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885–1886: The Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani. Edited, translated, and annotated by Hafez Farmayan and Elton L. Daniel, 1990. By permission of University of Texas Press.
The Fifth Pillar: The Story of a Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, by Saida Miller Khalifa, 1977. By permission of Exposition Press.
Naser-e Khosraw’s Book of Travels, translation, introduction, and notes by W. M. Thackston, Jr., 1986. By permission of Persian Heritage Foundation, Bibliotheca Persica, Columbia University.
A Pilgrim in Arabia, by Harry St. John Bridger Philby, 1946. By permission of the Philby Estate.
Arabian Days, by Harry St. John Bridger Philby. By permission of the Philby Estate.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X with the assistance of Alex Haley, 1965. By permission of Ballantine Books.
In the Land of Invisible Women, copyright 2008 by Qanta Ahmed. Used by permission of Sourcebooks.
A Season in Mecca, by Abdellah Hammoudi, translated by Pascale Ghazaleh. Translation copyright © 2006 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Reprinted by permission of Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
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