The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca

With this impassioned memoir, an American convert to Islam "lifts the veil on this ancient and sacred duty" of making a pilgrimage to Mecca (Publishers Weekly).

The hadj, or sacred journey, is the pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are enjoined to make once in their lifetimes. One of the world's oldest religious rites, the hadj has continued without break for fourteen centuries. It is, like most things Islamic, shrouded in mystery for Westerners. Here, Michael Wolfe, an American-born wr...