A Journey to the Hijaz

This book can be classified as one of the beginnings of what is called "travel literature" in our modern era, and it can be classified as part of the biography of the distinguished writer Ibrahim Abdul Qadir Al-Mazni, who says in the first pages of his book: "I was particularly pleased to travel to the Hijaz and not to the West, because the West visits Egypt, and if you wanted to, you could say that it is invading it, so we do not need to visit it, but as for the Hijaz, its affairs are very...